When is it cheaper to rent a Enclosed Cargo Trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $50 day rate would be $350, but the weekly rate caps it at $315.

When is it cheaper to rent a Enclosed Cargo Trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 27. 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.

Enclosed Cargo Trailer

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mike collazo · Dry Van

Day: $50
Week: $315
28 days: $1,200

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $350. On the week rate it is $315.

Weekly stops winning on

day 27

27 days at the day rate would be $1,350. 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 Enclosed Cargo Trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$50	$50	—	day
2	$100	$100	—	day
3	$150	$150	—	day
4	$200	$200	—	day
5	$250	$250	—	day
6	$300	$300	—	day
7	$350	$315	you save $35	week
8	$400	$365	you save $35	week
9	$450	$415	you save $35	week
10	$500	$465	you save $35	week
11	$550	$515	you save $35	week
12	$600	$565	you save $35	week
13	$650	$615	you save $35	week
14	$700	$630	you save $70	week
15	$750	$680	you save $70	week
16	$800	$730	you save $70	week
17	$850	$780	you save $70	week
18	$900	$830	you save $70	week
19	$950	$880	you save $70	week
20	$1,000	$930	you save $70	week
21	$1,050	$945	you save $105	week
22	$1,100	$995	you save $105	week
23	$1,150	$1,045	you save $105	week
24	$1,200	$1,095	you save $105	week
25	$1,250	$1,145	you save $105	week
26	$1,300	$1,195	you save $105	week
27	$1,350	$1,200	you save $150	28-day
28	$1,400	$1,200	you save $200	28-day
29	$1,450	$1,250	you save $200	day
30	$1,500	$1,300	you save $200	day
31	$1,550	$1,350	you save $200	day
32	$1,600	$1,400	you save $200	day
33	$1,650	$1,450	you save $200	day
34	$1,700	$1,500	you save $200	day
35	$1,750	$1,515	you save $235	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.