When is it cheaper to rent a Utility Trailer 6’x10’ by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $140 day rate would be $700, but the weekly rate caps it at $675.

When is it cheaper to rent a Utility Trailer 6’x10’ on the 28-day rate?

From day 16. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,500 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.

Utility Trailer 6’x10’

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daniel insley · Small Utility Trailers

Day: $140
Week: $675
28 days: $1,500

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $700. On the week rate it is $675.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $2,240. On the 28-day rate it is $1,500.

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 Utility Trailer 6’x10’, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$140	$140	—	day
2	$280	$280	—	day
3	$420	$420	—	day
4	$560	$560	—	day
5	$700	$675	you save $25	week
6	$840	$675	you save $165	week
7	$980	$675	you save $305	week
8	$1,120	$815	you save $305	week
9	$1,260	$955	you save $305	week
10	$1,400	$1,095	you save $305	week
11	$1,540	$1,235	you save $305	week
12	$1,680	$1,350	you save $330	week
13	$1,820	$1,350	you save $470	week
14	$1,960	$1,350	you save $610	week
15	$2,100	$1,490	you save $610	week
16	$2,240	$1,500	you save $740	28-day
17	$2,380	$1,500	you save $880	28-day
18	$2,520	$1,500	you save $1,020	28-day
19	$2,660	$1,500	you save $1,160	28-day
20	$2,800	$1,500	you save $1,300	28-day
21	$2,940	$1,500	you save $1,440	28-day
22	$3,080	$1,500	you save $1,580	28-day
23	$3,220	$1,500	you save $1,720	28-day
24	$3,360	$1,500	you save $1,860	28-day
25	$3,500	$1,500	you save $2,000	28-day
26	$3,640	$1,500	you save $2,140	28-day
27	$3,780	$1,500	you save $2,280	28-day
28	$3,920	$1,500	you save $2,420	28-day
29	$4,060	$1,640	you save $2,420	day
30	$4,200	$1,780	you save $2,420	day
31	$4,340	$1,920	you save $2,420	day
32	$4,480	$2,060	you save $2,420	day
33	$4,620	$2,175	you save $2,445	week
34	$4,760	$2,175	you save $2,585	week
35	$4,900	$2,175	you save $2,725	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.