When is it cheaper to rent a Hand Truck by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $12 day rate would be $60, but the weekly rate caps it at $50.

When is it cheaper to rent a Hand Truck on the 28-day rate?

From day 19. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $150 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.

Hand Truck

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Paul Garcia · Moving Aids

Day: $12
Week: $50
28 days: $150

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $60. On the week rate it is $50.

Weekly stops winning on

day 19

19 days at the day rate would be $228. On the 28-day rate it is $150.

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 Hand Truck, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$12	$12	—	day
2	$24	$24	—	day
3	$36	$36	—	day
4	$48	$48	—	day
5	$60	$50	you save $10	week
6	$72	$50	you save $22	week
7	$84	$50	you save $34	week
8	$96	$62	you save $34	week
9	$108	$74	you save $34	week
10	$120	$86	you save $34	week
11	$132	$98	you save $34	week
12	$144	$100	you save $44	week
13	$156	$100	you save $56	week
14	$168	$100	you save $68	week
15	$180	$112	you save $68	week
16	$192	$124	you save $68	week
17	$204	$136	you save $68	week
18	$216	$148	you save $68	week
19	$228	$150	you save $78	28-day
20	$240	$150	you save $90	28-day
21	$252	$150	you save $102	28-day
22	$264	$150	you save $114	28-day
23	$276	$150	you save $126	28-day
24	$288	$150	you save $138	28-day
25	$300	$150	you save $150	28-day
26	$312	$150	you save $162	28-day
27	$324	$150	you save $174	28-day
28	$336	$150	you save $186	28-day
29	$348	$162	you save $186	day
30	$360	$174	you save $186	day
31	$372	$186	you save $186	day
32	$384	$198	you save $186	day
33	$396	$200	you save $196	week
34	$408	$200	you save $208	week
35	$420	$200	you save $220	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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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.