When is it cheaper to rent a Caterpillar 255 Skid Steer Loader by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $325 day rate would be $1,625, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,479.

When is it cheaper to rent a Caterpillar 255 Skid Steer Loader on the 28-day rate?

From day 25. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $5,558 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 255 Skid Steer Loader

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Easy Dumpsters · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $325
Week: $1,479
28 days: $5,558

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $1,625. On the week rate it is $1,479.

Weekly stops winning on

day 25

25 days at the day rate would be $8,125. On the 28-day rate it is $5,558.

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 255 Skid Steer Loader, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$325	$325	—	day
2	$650	$650	—	day
3	$975	$975	—	day
4	$1,300	$1,300	—	day
5	$1,625	$1,479	you save $146	week
6	$1,950	$1,479	you save $471	week
7	$2,275	$1,479	you save $796	week
8	$2,600	$1,804	you save $796	week
9	$2,925	$2,129	you save $796	week
10	$3,250	$2,454	you save $796	week
11	$3,575	$2,779	you save $796	week
12	$3,900	$2,958	you save $942	week
13	$4,225	$2,958	you save $1,267	week
14	$4,550	$2,958	you save $1,592	week
15	$4,875	$3,283	you save $1,592	week
16	$5,200	$3,608	you save $1,592	week
17	$5,525	$3,933	you save $1,592	week
18	$5,850	$4,258	you save $1,592	week
19	$6,175	$4,437	you save $1,738	week
20	$6,500	$4,437	you save $2,063	week
21	$6,825	$4,437	you save $2,388	week
22	$7,150	$4,762	you save $2,388	week
23	$7,475	$5,087	you save $2,388	week
24	$7,800	$5,412	you save $2,388	week
25	$8,125	$5,558	you save $2,567	28-day
26	$8,450	$5,558	you save $2,892	28-day
27	$8,775	$5,558	you save $3,217	28-day
28	$9,100	$5,558	you save $3,542	28-day
29	$9,425	$5,883	you save $3,542	day
30	$9,750	$6,208	you save $3,542	day
31	$10,075	$6,533	you save $3,542	day
32	$10,400	$6,858	you save $3,542	day
33	$10,725	$7,037	you save $3,688	week
34	$11,050	$7,037	you save $4,013	week
35	$11,375	$7,037	you save $4,338	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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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.