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

From day 7. 7 days at the $250 day rate would be $1,750, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,505.

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

From day 20. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,500 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.

Compact Track Loader

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David Castaneda · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $250
Week: $1,505
28 days: $4,500

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $1,750. On the week rate it is $1,505.

Weekly stops winning on

day 20

20 days at the day rate would be $5,000. On the 28-day rate it is $4,500.

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 Compact Track Loader, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$250	$250	—	day
2	$500	$500	—	day
3	$750	$750	—	day
4	$1,000	$1,000	—	day
5	$1,250	$1,250	—	day
6	$1,500	$1,500	—	day
7	$1,750	$1,505	you save $245	week
8	$2,000	$1,755	you save $245	week
9	$2,250	$2,005	you save $245	week
10	$2,500	$2,255	you save $245	week
11	$2,750	$2,505	you save $245	week
12	$3,000	$2,755	you save $245	week
13	$3,250	$3,005	you save $245	week
14	$3,500	$3,010	you save $490	week
15	$3,750	$3,260	you save $490	week
16	$4,000	$3,510	you save $490	week
17	$4,250	$3,760	you save $490	week
18	$4,500	$4,010	you save $490	week
19	$4,750	$4,260	you save $490	week
20	$5,000	$4,500	you save $500	28-day
21	$5,250	$4,500	you save $750	28-day
22	$5,500	$4,500	you save $1,000	28-day
23	$5,750	$4,500	you save $1,250	28-day
24	$6,000	$4,500	you save $1,500	28-day
25	$6,250	$4,500	you save $1,750	28-day
26	$6,500	$4,500	you save $2,000	28-day
27	$6,750	$4,500	you save $2,250	28-day
28	$7,000	$4,500	you save $2,500	28-day
29	$7,250	$4,750	you save $2,500	day
30	$7,500	$5,000	you save $2,500	day
31	$7,750	$5,250	you save $2,500	day
32	$8,000	$5,500	you save $2,500	day
33	$8,250	$5,750	you save $2,500	day
34	$8,500	$6,000	you save $2,500	day
35	$8,750	$6,005	you save $2,745	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.