When is it cheaper to rent a Mini Skid Track Loader by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $240 day rate would be $1,200, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,000.

When is it cheaper to rent a Mini Skid Track Loader on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,880 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.

Mini Skid Track Loader

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Carlos Pantaleon · Loaders - Compact Track

Day: $240
Week: $1,000
28 days: $2,880

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $1,200. On the week rate it is $1,000.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $4,320. On the 28-day rate it is $2,880.

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 Mini Skid Track Loader, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$240	$240	—	day
2	$480	$480	—	day
3	$720	$720	—	day
4	$960	$960	—	day
5	$1,200	$1,000	you save $200	week
6	$1,440	$1,000	you save $440	week
7	$1,680	$1,000	you save $680	week
8	$1,920	$1,240	you save $680	week
9	$2,160	$1,480	you save $680	week
10	$2,400	$1,720	you save $680	week
11	$2,640	$1,960	you save $680	week
12	$2,880	$2,000	you save $880	week
13	$3,120	$2,000	you save $1,120	week
14	$3,360	$2,000	you save $1,360	week
15	$3,600	$2,240	you save $1,360	week
16	$3,840	$2,480	you save $1,360	week
17	$4,080	$2,720	you save $1,360	week
18	$4,320	$2,880	you save $1,440	28-day
19	$4,560	$2,880	you save $1,680	28-day
20	$4,800	$2,880	you save $1,920	28-day
21	$5,040	$2,880	you save $2,160	28-day
22	$5,280	$2,880	you save $2,400	28-day
23	$5,520	$2,880	you save $2,640	28-day
24	$5,760	$2,880	you save $2,880	28-day
25	$6,000	$2,880	you save $3,120	28-day
26	$6,240	$2,880	you save $3,360	28-day
27	$6,480	$2,880	you save $3,600	28-day
28	$6,720	$2,880	you save $3,840	28-day
29	$6,960	$3,120	you save $3,840	day
30	$7,200	$3,360	you save $3,840	day
31	$7,440	$3,600	you save $3,840	day
32	$7,680	$3,840	you save $3,840	day
33	$7,920	$3,880	you save $4,040	week
34	$8,160	$3,880	you save $4,280	week
35	$8,400	$3,880	you save $4,520	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: $2,880
Rental protection (RPP): $432
Service fee: $288
Estimated total: $3,600

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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.