When is it cheaper to rent a Skid Steer by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $599 day rate would be $1,797, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,690.

When is it cheaper to rent a Skid Steer on the 28-day rate?

From day 16. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,500 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.

Skid Steer

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emilio guerrero · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $599
Week: $1,690
28 days: $4,500

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $1,797. On the week rate it is $1,690.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $9,584. On the 28-day rate it is $4,500.

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 Skid Steer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$599	$599	—	day
2	$1,198	$1,198	—	day
3	$1,797	$1,690	you save $107	week
4	$2,396	$1,690	you save $706	week
5	$2,995	$1,690	you save $1,305	week
6	$3,594	$1,690	you save $1,904	week
7	$4,193	$1,690	you save $2,503	week
8	$4,792	$2,289	you save $2,503	week
9	$5,391	$2,888	you save $2,503	week
10	$5,990	$3,380	you save $2,610	week
11	$6,589	$3,380	you save $3,209	week
12	$7,188	$3,380	you save $3,808	week
13	$7,787	$3,380	you save $4,407	week
14	$8,386	$3,380	you save $5,006	week
15	$8,985	$3,979	you save $5,006	week
16	$9,584	$4,500	you save $5,084	28-day
17	$10,183	$4,500	you save $5,683	28-day
18	$10,782	$4,500	you save $6,282	28-day
19	$11,381	$4,500	you save $6,881	28-day
20	$11,980	$4,500	you save $7,480	28-day
21	$12,579	$4,500	you save $8,079	28-day
22	$13,178	$4,500	you save $8,678	28-day
23	$13,777	$4,500	you save $9,277	28-day
24	$14,376	$4,500	you save $9,876	28-day
25	$14,975	$4,500	you save $10,475	28-day
26	$15,574	$4,500	you save $11,074	28-day
27	$16,173	$4,500	you save $11,673	28-day
28	$16,772	$4,500	you save $12,272	28-day
29	$17,371	$5,099	you save $12,272	day
30	$17,970	$5,698	you save $12,272	day
31	$18,569	$6,190	you save $12,379	week
32	$19,168	$6,190	you save $12,978	week
33	$19,767	$6,190	you save $13,577	week
34	$20,366	$6,190	you save $14,176	week
35	$20,965	$6,190	you save $14,775	week

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

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 16 days: $4,500
Rental protection (RPP): $675
Service fee: $450
Estimated total: $5,625

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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.