When is it cheaper to rent a 20’x8.5’ trailer 10K by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $125 day rate would be $625, but the weekly rate caps it at $504.

When is it cheaper to rent a 20’x8.5’ trailer 10K on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,500 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.

20’x8.5’ trailer 10K

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Parker kelly · Flatbed

Day: $125
Week: $504
28 days: $1,500

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $625. On the week rate it is $504.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $2,250. On the 28-day rate it is $1,500.

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 20’x8.5’ trailer 10K, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$125	$125	—	day
2	$250	$250	—	day
3	$375	$375	—	day
4	$500	$500	—	day
5	$625	$504	you save $121	week
6	$750	$504	you save $246	week
7	$875	$504	you save $371	week
8	$1,000	$629	you save $371	week
9	$1,125	$754	you save $371	week
10	$1,250	$879	you save $371	week
11	$1,375	$1,004	you save $371	week
12	$1,500	$1,008	you save $492	week
13	$1,625	$1,008	you save $617	week
14	$1,750	$1,008	you save $742	week
15	$1,875	$1,133	you save $742	week
16	$2,000	$1,258	you save $742	week
17	$2,125	$1,383	you save $742	week
18	$2,250	$1,500	you save $750	28-day
19	$2,375	$1,500	you save $875	28-day
20	$2,500	$1,500	you save $1,000	28-day
21	$2,625	$1,500	you save $1,125	28-day
22	$2,750	$1,500	you save $1,250	28-day
23	$2,875	$1,500	you save $1,375	28-day
24	$3,000	$1,500	you save $1,500	28-day
25	$3,125	$1,500	you save $1,625	28-day
26	$3,250	$1,500	you save $1,750	28-day
27	$3,375	$1,500	you save $1,875	28-day
28	$3,500	$1,500	you save $2,000	28-day
29	$3,625	$1,625	you save $2,000	day
30	$3,750	$1,750	you save $2,000	day
31	$3,875	$1,875	you save $2,000	day
32	$4,000	$2,000	you save $2,000	day
33	$4,125	$2,004	you save $2,121	week
34	$4,250	$2,004	you save $2,246	week
35	$4,375	$2,004	you save $2,371	week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Our pricing service couldn’t be reached just now, so there’s no checkout figure to show. The rate table above is unaffected — it’s the operator’s published card.

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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.