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.

Cement mixer

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Carlton Riffel · Concrete - Mixers

Day
$30
Week
$100
28 days
$250

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $120. On the week rate it is $100.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $480. On the 28-day rate it is $250.

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 Cement mixer, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$30$30—day
2$60$60—day
3$90$90—day
4$120$100you save $20week
5$150$100you save $50week
6$180$100you save $80week
7$210$100you save $110week
8$240$130you save $110week
9$270$160you save $110week
10$300$190you save $110week
11$330$200you save $130week
12$360$200you save $160week
13$390$200you save $190week
14$420$200you save $220week
15$450$230you save $220week
16$480$250you save $23028-day
17$510$250you save $26028-day
18$540$250you save $29028-day
19$570$250you save $32028-day
20$600$250you save $35028-day
21$630$250you save $38028-day
22$660$250you save $41028-day
23$690$250you save $44028-day
24$720$250you save $47028-day
25$750$250you save $50028-day
26$780$250you save $53028-day
27$810$250you save $56028-day
28$840$250you save $59028-day
29$870$280you save $590day
30$900$310you save $590day
31$930$340you save $590day
32$960$350you save $610week
33$990$350you save $640week
34$1,020$350you save $670week
35$1,050$350you save $700week

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
$250
Rental protection (RPP)
$37.50
Service fee
$25
Estimated total
$312.50

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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.