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

From day 5. 5 days at the $382.50 day rate would be $1,912.50, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,657.50.

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

From day 19. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,965 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.

Caterpillar Track Loader

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Daniel Simon · Loaders - Compact Track

Day: $382.50
Week: $1,657.50
28 days: $4,965

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $1,912.50. On the week rate it is $1,657.50.

Weekly stops winning on

day 19

19 days at the day rate would be $7,267.50. On the 28-day rate it is $4,965.

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 Caterpillar Track Loader, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$382.50	$382.50	—	day
2	$765	$765	—	day
3	$1,147.50	$1,147.50	—	day
4	$1,530	$1,530	—	day
5	$1,912.50	$1,657.50	you save $255	week
6	$2,295	$1,657.50	you save $637.50	week
7	$2,677.50	$1,657.50	you save $1,020	week
8	$3,060	$2,040	you save $1,020	week
9	$3,442.50	$2,422.50	you save $1,020	week
10	$3,825	$2,805	you save $1,020	week
11	$4,207.50	$3,187.50	you save $1,020	week
12	$4,590	$3,315	you save $1,275	week
13	$4,972.50	$3,315	you save $1,657.50	week
14	$5,355	$3,315	you save $2,040	week
15	$5,737.50	$3,697.50	you save $2,040	week
16	$6,120	$4,080	you save $2,040	week
17	$6,502.50	$4,462.50	you save $2,040	week
18	$6,885	$4,845	you save $2,040	week
19	$7,267.50	$4,965	you save $2,302.50	28-day
20	$7,650	$4,965	you save $2,685	28-day
21	$8,032.50	$4,965	you save $3,067.50	28-day
22	$8,415	$4,965	you save $3,450	28-day
23	$8,797.50	$4,965	you save $3,832.50	28-day
24	$9,180	$4,965	you save $4,215	28-day
25	$9,562.50	$4,965	you save $4,597.50	28-day
26	$9,945	$4,965	you save $4,980	28-day
27	$10,327.50	$4,965	you save $5,362.50	28-day
28	$10,710	$4,965	you save $5,745	28-day
29	$11,092.50	$5,347.50	you save $5,745	day
30	$11,475	$5,730	you save $5,745	day
31	$11,857.50	$6,112.50	you save $5,745	day
32	$12,240	$6,495	you save $5,745	day
33	$12,622.50	$6,622.50	you save $6,000	week
34	$13,005	$6,622.50	you save $6,382.50	week
35	$13,387.50	$6,622.50	you save $6,765	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 · 19 days: $4,965
Rental protection (RPP): $744.75
Service fee: $496.50
Estimated total: $6,206.25

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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.