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

From day 4. 4 days at the $200 day rate would be $800, but the weekly rate caps it at $700.

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

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,400 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.

Dump Trailer

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Mauricio Sanchez · Dump Trailer

Day: $200
Week: $700
28 days: $2,400

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $800. On the week rate it is $700.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $4,600. On the 28-day rate it is $2,400.

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 Dump Trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$200	$200	—	day
2	$400	$400	—	day
3	$600	$600	—	day
4	$800	$700	you save $100	week
5	$1,000	$700	you save $300	week
6	$1,200	$700	you save $500	week
7	$1,400	$700	you save $700	week
8	$1,600	$900	you save $700	week
9	$1,800	$1,100	you save $700	week
10	$2,000	$1,300	you save $700	week
11	$2,200	$1,400	you save $800	week
12	$2,400	$1,400	you save $1,000	week
13	$2,600	$1,400	you save $1,200	week
14	$2,800	$1,400	you save $1,400	week
15	$3,000	$1,600	you save $1,400	week
16	$3,200	$1,800	you save $1,400	week
17	$3,400	$2,000	you save $1,400	week
18	$3,600	$2,100	you save $1,500	week
19	$3,800	$2,100	you save $1,700	week
20	$4,000	$2,100	you save $1,900	week
21	$4,200	$2,100	you save $2,100	week
22	$4,400	$2,300	you save $2,100	week
23	$4,600	$2,400	you save $2,200	28-day
24	$4,800	$2,400	you save $2,400	28-day
25	$5,000	$2,400	you save $2,600	28-day
26	$5,200	$2,400	you save $2,800	28-day
27	$5,400	$2,400	you save $3,000	28-day
28	$5,600	$2,400	you save $3,200	28-day
29	$5,800	$2,600	you save $3,200	day
30	$6,000	$2,800	you save $3,200	day
31	$6,200	$3,000	you save $3,200	day
32	$6,400	$3,100	you save $3,300	week
33	$6,600	$3,100	you save $3,500	week
34	$6,800	$3,100	you save $3,700	week
35	$7,000	$3,100	you save $3,900	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 · 23 days: $2,400
Rental protection (RPP): $360
Service fee: $240
Estimated total: $3,000

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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.