When is it cheaper to rent a S70 Bobcat Skidsteer # 6 by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $311 day rate would be $1,244, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,240.

When is it cheaper to rent a S70 Bobcat Skidsteer # 6 on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,717 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.

S70 Bobcat Skidsteer # 6

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Simon Equipment Rentals · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $311
Week: $1,240
28 days: $3,717

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,244. On the week rate it is $1,240.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $5,598. On the 28-day rate it is $3,717.

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 S70 Bobcat Skidsteer # 6, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$311	$311	—	day
2	$622	$622	—	day
3	$933	$933	—	day
4	$1,244	$1,240	you save $4	week
5	$1,555	$1,240	you save $315	week
6	$1,866	$1,240	you save $626	week
7	$2,177	$1,240	you save $937	week
8	$2,488	$1,551	you save $937	week
9	$2,799	$1,862	you save $937	week
10	$3,110	$2,173	you save $937	week
11	$3,421	$2,480	you save $941	week
12	$3,732	$2,480	you save $1,252	week
13	$4,043	$2,480	you save $1,563	week
14	$4,354	$2,480	you save $1,874	week
15	$4,665	$2,791	you save $1,874	week
16	$4,976	$3,102	you save $1,874	week
17	$5,287	$3,413	you save $1,874	week
18	$5,598	$3,717	you save $1,881	28-day
19	$5,909	$3,717	you save $2,192	28-day
20	$6,220	$3,717	you save $2,503	28-day
21	$6,531	$3,717	you save $2,814	28-day
22	$6,842	$3,717	you save $3,125	28-day
23	$7,153	$3,717	you save $3,436	28-day
24	$7,464	$3,717	you save $3,747	28-day
25	$7,775	$3,717	you save $4,058	28-day
26	$8,086	$3,717	you save $4,369	28-day
27	$8,397	$3,717	you save $4,680	28-day
28	$8,708	$3,717	you save $4,991	28-day
29	$9,019	$4,028	you save $4,991	day
30	$9,330	$4,339	you save $4,991	day
31	$9,641	$4,650	you save $4,991	day
32	$9,952	$4,957	you save $4,995	week
33	$10,263	$4,957	you save $5,306	week
34	$10,574	$4,957	you save $5,617	week
35	$10,885	$4,957	you save $5,928	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.