When is it cheaper to rent a MudMixer Evolution by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $80 day rate would be $400, but the weekly rate caps it at $398.

When is it cheaper to rent a MudMixer Evolution on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,200 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.

MudMixer Evolution

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Braima Massaquoi · Concrete - Mixers

Day: $80
Week: $398
28 days: $1,200

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $400. On the week rate it is $398.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $1,760. On the 28-day rate it is $1,200.

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 MudMixer Evolution, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$80	$80	—	day
2	$160	$160	—	day
3	$240	$240	—	day
4	$320	$320	—	day
5	$400	$398	you save $2	week
6	$480	$398	you save $82	week
7	$560	$398	you save $162	week
8	$640	$478	you save $162	week
9	$720	$558	you save $162	week
10	$800	$638	you save $162	week
11	$880	$718	you save $162	week
12	$960	$796	you save $164	week
13	$1,040	$796	you save $244	week
14	$1,120	$796	you save $324	week
15	$1,200	$876	you save $324	week
16	$1,280	$956	you save $324	week
17	$1,360	$1,036	you save $324	week
18	$1,440	$1,116	you save $324	week
19	$1,520	$1,194	you save $326	week
20	$1,600	$1,194	you save $406	week
21	$1,680	$1,194	you save $486	week
22	$1,760	$1,200	you save $560	28-day
23	$1,840	$1,200	you save $640	28-day
24	$1,920	$1,200	you save $720	28-day
25	$2,000	$1,200	you save $800	28-day
26	$2,080	$1,200	you save $880	28-day
27	$2,160	$1,200	you save $960	28-day
28	$2,240	$1,200	you save $1,040	28-day
29	$2,320	$1,280	you save $1,040	day
30	$2,400	$1,360	you save $1,040	day
31	$2,480	$1,440	you save $1,040	day
32	$2,560	$1,520	you save $1,040	day
33	$2,640	$1,598	you save $1,042	week
34	$2,720	$1,598	you save $1,122	week
35	$2,800	$1,598	you save $1,202	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.