When is it cheaper to rent a John Deere 250 Skid Steer by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $125 day rate would be $500, but the weekly rate caps it at $450.

When is it cheaper to rent a John Deere 250 Skid Steer on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,350 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.

John Deere 250 Skid Steer

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Will Browning · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $125
Week: $450
28 days: $1,350

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $500. On the week rate it is $450.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $2,250. On the 28-day rate it is $1,350.

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 John Deere 250 Skid Steer, 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	$450	you save $50	week
5	$625	$450	you save $175	week
6	$750	$450	you save $300	week
7	$875	$450	you save $425	week
8	$1,000	$575	you save $425	week
9	$1,125	$700	you save $425	week
10	$1,250	$825	you save $425	week
11	$1,375	$900	you save $475	week
12	$1,500	$900	you save $600	week
13	$1,625	$900	you save $725	week
14	$1,750	$900	you save $850	week
15	$1,875	$1,025	you save $850	week
16	$2,000	$1,150	you save $850	week
17	$2,125	$1,275	you save $850	week
18	$2,250	$1,350	you save $900	28-day
19	$2,375	$1,350	you save $1,025	28-day
20	$2,500	$1,350	you save $1,150	28-day
21	$2,625	$1,350	you save $1,275	28-day
22	$2,750	$1,350	you save $1,400	28-day
23	$2,875	$1,350	you save $1,525	28-day
24	$3,000	$1,350	you save $1,650	28-day
25	$3,125	$1,350	you save $1,775	28-day
26	$3,250	$1,350	you save $1,900	28-day
27	$3,375	$1,350	you save $2,025	28-day
28	$3,500	$1,350	you save $2,150	28-day
29	$3,625	$1,475	you save $2,150	day
30	$3,750	$1,600	you save $2,150	day
31	$3,875	$1,725	you save $2,150	day
32	$4,000	$1,800	you save $2,200	week
33	$4,125	$1,800	you save $2,325	week
34	$4,250	$1,800	you save $2,450	week
35	$4,375	$1,800	you save $2,575	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: $1,350
Rental protection (RPP): $202.50
Service fee: $135
Estimated total: $1,687.50

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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.