When is it cheaper to rent a 45' Articulating Boom Lift, #2 by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $372 day rate would be $1,488, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,487.

When is it cheaper to rent a 45' Articulating Boom Lift, #2 on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,461 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.

45' Articulating Boom Lift, #2

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Simon Equipment Rentals · Manlifts - Boom - Articulating - Compact

Day: $372
Week: $1,487
28 days: $4,461

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,488. On the week rate it is $1,487.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $6,696. On the 28-day rate it is $4,461.

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 45' Articulating Boom Lift, #2, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$372	$372	—	day
2	$744	$744	—	day
3	$1,116	$1,116	—	day
4	$1,488	$1,487	you save $1	week
5	$1,860	$1,487	you save $373	week
6	$2,232	$1,487	you save $745	week
7	$2,604	$1,487	you save $1,117	week
8	$2,976	$1,859	you save $1,117	week
9	$3,348	$2,231	you save $1,117	week
10	$3,720	$2,603	you save $1,117	week
11	$4,092	$2,974	you save $1,118	week
12	$4,464	$2,974	you save $1,490	week
13	$4,836	$2,974	you save $1,862	week
14	$5,208	$2,974	you save $2,234	week
15	$5,580	$3,346	you save $2,234	week
16	$5,952	$3,718	you save $2,234	week
17	$6,324	$4,090	you save $2,234	week
18	$6,696	$4,461	you save $2,235	28-day
19	$7,068	$4,461	you save $2,607	28-day
20	$7,440	$4,461	you save $2,979	28-day
21	$7,812	$4,461	you save $3,351	28-day
22	$8,184	$4,461	you save $3,723	28-day
23	$8,556	$4,461	you save $4,095	28-day
24	$8,928	$4,461	you save $4,467	28-day
25	$9,300	$4,461	you save $4,839	28-day
26	$9,672	$4,461	you save $5,211	28-day
27	$10,044	$4,461	you save $5,583	28-day
28	$10,416	$4,461	you save $5,955	28-day
29	$10,788	$4,833	you save $5,955	day
30	$11,160	$5,205	you save $5,955	day
31	$11,532	$5,577	you save $5,955	day
32	$11,904	$5,948	you save $5,956	week
33	$12,276	$5,948	you save $6,328	week
34	$12,648	$5,948	you save $6,700	week
35	$13,020	$5,948	you save $7,072	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 · 18 days: $4,461
Rental protection (RPP): $669.15
Service fee: $446.10
Estimated total: $5,576.25

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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.