When is it cheaper to rent a Heavy-Duty 7x18 Dump Trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $225 day rate would be $1,350, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,292.

When is it cheaper to rent a Heavy-Duty 7x18 Dump Trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 25. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,725 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.

Heavy-Duty 7x18 Dump Trailer

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eqiper · Dump Trailer

Day: $225
Week: $1,292
28 days: $4,725

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $1,350. On the week rate it is $1,292.

Weekly stops winning on

day 25

25 days at the day rate would be $5,625. On the 28-day rate it is $4,725.

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 Heavy-Duty 7x18 Dump Trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$225	$225	—	day
2	$450	$450	—	day
3	$675	$675	—	day
4	$900	$900	—	day
5	$1,125	$1,125	—	day
6	$1,350	$1,292	you save $58	week
7	$1,575	$1,292	you save $283	week
8	$1,800	$1,517	you save $283	week
9	$2,025	$1,742	you save $283	week
10	$2,250	$1,967	you save $283	week
11	$2,475	$2,192	you save $283	week
12	$2,700	$2,417	you save $283	week
13	$2,925	$2,584	you save $341	week
14	$3,150	$2,584	you save $566	week
15	$3,375	$2,809	you save $566	week
16	$3,600	$3,034	you save $566	week
17	$3,825	$3,259	you save $566	week
18	$4,050	$3,484	you save $566	week
19	$4,275	$3,709	you save $566	week
20	$4,500	$3,876	you save $624	week
21	$4,725	$3,876	you save $849	week
22	$4,950	$4,101	you save $849	week
23	$5,175	$4,326	you save $849	week
24	$5,400	$4,551	you save $849	week
25	$5,625	$4,725	you save $900	28-day
26	$5,850	$4,725	you save $1,125	28-day
27	$6,075	$4,725	you save $1,350	28-day
28	$6,300	$4,725	you save $1,575	28-day
29	$6,525	$4,950	you save $1,575	day
30	$6,750	$5,175	you save $1,575	day
31	$6,975	$5,400	you save $1,575	day
32	$7,200	$5,625	you save $1,575	day
33	$7,425	$5,850	you save $1,575	day
34	$7,650	$6,017	you save $1,633	week
35	$7,875	$6,017	you save $1,858	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 · 25 days: $4,725
Rental protection (RPP): $708.75
Service fee: $472.50
Estimated total: $5,906.25

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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.