When is it cheaper to rent a carry on 18’ dovetail by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $56 day rate would be $224, but the weekly rate caps it at $221.

When is it cheaper to rent a carry on 18’ dovetail on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $663 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.

carry on 18’ dovetail

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Daniel Bruley · Flatbed

Day: $56
Week: $221
28 days: $663

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $224. On the week rate it is $221.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $1,008. On the 28-day rate it is $663.

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 carry on 18’ dovetail, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$56	$56	—	day
2	$112	$112	—	day
3	$168	$168	—	day
4	$224	$221	you save $3	week
5	$280	$221	you save $59	week
6	$336	$221	you save $115	week
7	$392	$221	you save $171	week
8	$448	$277	you save $171	week
9	$504	$333	you save $171	week
10	$560	$389	you save $171	week
11	$616	$442	you save $174	week
12	$672	$442	you save $230	week
13	$728	$442	you save $286	week
14	$784	$442	you save $342	week
15	$840	$498	you save $342	week
16	$896	$554	you save $342	week
17	$952	$610	you save $342	week
18	$1,008	$663	you save $345	28-day
19	$1,064	$663	you save $401	28-day
20	$1,120	$663	you save $457	28-day
21	$1,176	$663	you save $513	28-day
22	$1,232	$663	you save $569	28-day
23	$1,288	$663	you save $625	28-day
24	$1,344	$663	you save $681	28-day
25	$1,400	$663	you save $737	28-day
26	$1,456	$663	you save $793	28-day
27	$1,512	$663	you save $849	28-day
28	$1,568	$663	you save $905	28-day
29	$1,624	$719	you save $905	day
30	$1,680	$775	you save $905	day
31	$1,736	$831	you save $905	day
32	$1,792	$884	you save $908	week
33	$1,848	$884	you save $964	week
34	$1,904	$884	you save $1,020	week
35	$1,960	$884	you save $1,076	week

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

What checkout will quote you

Our pricing service couldn’t be reached just now, so there’s no checkout figure to show. The rate table above is unaffected — it’s the operator’s published card.

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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.