When is it cheaper to rent a 16 ton tilt deck trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $5,000 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

Break-even duration

Equipment rents on three rates — a day rate, a week rate and a 28-day rate — and the cheapest one changes as the job runs long. This finds the two days where it changes, on a real listing’s real published rates.

16 ton tilt deck trailer

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Elijah Niemiec · Lowboy / RGN

Day: $250
Week: $2,000
28 days: $5,000

Daily stops winning on

Never, on this card

Seven days at the day rate still cost less than the week rate on this card.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $4,500. On the 28-day rate it is $5,000.

The working

Whole weeks bill at the week rate; the leftover days bill at the day rate but never add up to more than one extra week; and a whole 28-day cycle never costs more than the 28-day rate. That is the rule, applied one day at a time.

Rental price by duration for 16 ton tilt deck trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$250	$250	—	day
2	$500	$500	—	day
3	$750	$750	—	day
4	$1,000	$1,000	—	day
5	$1,250	$1,250	—	day
6	$1,500	$1,500	—	day
7	$1,750	$2,000	costs $250 more	week
8	$2,000	$2,250	costs $250 more	week
9	$2,250	$2,500	costs $250 more	week
10	$2,500	$2,750	costs $250 more	week
11	$2,750	$3,000	costs $250 more	week
12	$3,000	$3,250	costs $250 more	week
13	$3,250	$3,500	costs $250 more	week
14	$3,500	$4,000	costs $500 more	week
15	$3,750	$4,250	costs $500 more	week
16	$4,000	$4,500	costs $500 more	week
17	$4,250	$4,750	costs $500 more	week
18	$4,500	$5,000	costs $500 more	28-day
19	$4,750	$5,000	costs $250 more	28-day
20	$5,000	$5,000	—	28-day
21	$5,250	$5,000	you save $250	28-day
22	$5,500	$5,000	you save $500	28-day
23	$5,750	$5,000	you save $750	28-day
24	$6,000	$5,000	you save $1,000	28-day
25	$6,250	$5,000	you save $1,250	28-day
26	$6,500	$5,000	you save $1,500	28-day
27	$6,750	$5,000	you save $1,750	28-day
28	$7,000	$5,000	you save $2,000	28-day
29	$7,250	$5,250	you save $2,000	day
30	$7,500	$5,500	you save $2,000	day
31	$7,750	$5,750	you save $2,000	day
32	$8,000	$6,000	you save $2,000	day
33	$8,250	$6,250	you save $2,000	day
34	$8,500	$6,500	you save $2,000	day
35	$8,750	$7,000	you save $1,750	week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 18 days: $5,000
Rental protection (RPP): $750
Service fee: $500
Estimated total: $6,250

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The numbers come from one operator’s published rates, so the tool needs to know whose.

Where these numbers come from

The rates are the operator’s own, read live from their listing. The arithmetic is the same best-price billing engine that produces 2Quip invoices — not a second copy written for this page — run on the industry-standard terms: a 28-day cycle, whole weeks at the week rate, leftover days at the day rate capped at one more week.

An operator can agree different terms on an individual rental, and a long rental bills per 28-day cycle rather than in one lump. So treat this as what the rate card says, and the operator’s quote as what you are agreeing to.