When is it cheaper to rent a 36ft trailer with center mount crane 29ft reach by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $298 day rate would be $1,788, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,530.

When is it cheaper to rent a 36ft trailer with center mount crane 29ft reach on the 28-day rate?

From day 25. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $5,525 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.

36ft trailer with center mount crane 29ft reach

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Brad Johnson · Cranes - All Terrain

Day: $298
Week: $1,530
28 days: $5,525

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $1,788. On the week rate it is $1,530.

Weekly stops winning on

day 25

25 days at the day rate would be $7,450. On the 28-day rate it is $5,525.

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 36ft trailer with center mount crane 29ft reach, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$298	$298	—	day
2	$596	$596	—	day
3	$894	$894	—	day
4	$1,192	$1,192	—	day
5	$1,490	$1,490	—	day
6	$1,788	$1,530	you save $258	week
7	$2,086	$1,530	you save $556	week
8	$2,384	$1,828	you save $556	week
9	$2,682	$2,126	you save $556	week
10	$2,980	$2,424	you save $556	week
11	$3,278	$2,722	you save $556	week
12	$3,576	$3,020	you save $556	week
13	$3,874	$3,060	you save $814	week
14	$4,172	$3,060	you save $1,112	week
15	$4,470	$3,358	you save $1,112	week
16	$4,768	$3,656	you save $1,112	week
17	$5,066	$3,954	you save $1,112	week
18	$5,364	$4,252	you save $1,112	week
19	$5,662	$4,550	you save $1,112	week
20	$5,960	$4,590	you save $1,370	week
21	$6,258	$4,590	you save $1,668	week
22	$6,556	$4,888	you save $1,668	week
23	$6,854	$5,186	you save $1,668	week
24	$7,152	$5,484	you save $1,668	week
25	$7,450	$5,525	you save $1,925	28-day
26	$7,748	$5,525	you save $2,223	28-day
27	$8,046	$5,525	you save $2,521	28-day
28	$8,344	$5,525	you save $2,819	28-day
29	$8,642	$5,823	you save $2,819	day
30	$8,940	$6,121	you save $2,819	day
31	$9,238	$6,419	you save $2,819	day
32	$9,536	$6,717	you save $2,819	day
33	$9,834	$7,015	you save $2,819	day
34	$10,132	$7,055	you save $3,077	week
35	$10,430	$7,055	you save $3,375	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: $5,525
Rental protection (RPP): $828.75
Service fee: $552.50
Estimated total: $6,906.25

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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.