When is it cheaper to rent a 20'x8.5' Enclosed Trailer UTR Blizzard Edition by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $155 day rate would be $1,085, but the weekly rate caps it at $982.

When is it cheaper to rent a 20'x8.5' Enclosed Trailer UTR Blizzard Edition on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,480 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.

20'x8.5' Enclosed Trailer UTR Blizzard Edition

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Upland Trailer Rentals · Dry Van

Day: $155
Week: $982
28 days: $2,480

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $1,085. On the week rate it is $982.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $2,790. On the 28-day rate it is $2,480.

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 20'x8.5' Enclosed Trailer UTR Blizzard Edition, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$155	$155	—	day
2	$310	$310	—	day
3	$465	$465	—	day
4	$620	$620	—	day
5	$775	$775	—	day
6	$930	$930	—	day
7	$1,085	$982	you save $103	week
8	$1,240	$1,137	you save $103	week
9	$1,395	$1,292	you save $103	week
10	$1,550	$1,447	you save $103	week
11	$1,705	$1,602	you save $103	week
12	$1,860	$1,757	you save $103	week
13	$2,015	$1,912	you save $103	week
14	$2,170	$1,964	you save $206	week
15	$2,325	$2,119	you save $206	week
16	$2,480	$2,274	you save $206	week
17	$2,635	$2,429	you save $206	week
18	$2,790	$2,480	you save $310	28-day
19	$2,945	$2,480	you save $465	28-day
20	$3,100	$2,480	you save $620	28-day
21	$3,255	$2,480	you save $775	28-day
22	$3,410	$2,480	you save $930	28-day
23	$3,565	$2,480	you save $1,085	28-day
24	$3,720	$2,480	you save $1,240	28-day
25	$3,875	$2,480	you save $1,395	28-day
26	$4,030	$2,480	you save $1,550	28-day
27	$4,185	$2,480	you save $1,705	28-day
28	$4,340	$2,480	you save $1,860	28-day
29	$4,495	$2,635	you save $1,860	day
30	$4,650	$2,790	you save $1,860	day
31	$4,805	$2,945	you save $1,860	day
32	$4,960	$3,100	you save $1,860	day
33	$5,115	$3,255	you save $1,860	day
34	$5,270	$3,410	you save $1,860	day
35	$5,425	$3,462	you save $1,963	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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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.