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.

Pallet forks

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David Chandler · Forklifts - Attachments

Day
$80
Week
$225
28 days
$525

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $240. On the week rate it is $225.

Weekly stops winning on

day 15

15 days at the day rate would be $1,200. On the 28-day rate it is $525.

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 Pallet forks, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$80$80—day
2$160$160—day
3$240$225you save $15week
4$320$225you save $95week
5$400$225you save $175week
6$480$225you save $255week
7$560$225you save $335week
8$640$305you save $335week
9$720$385you save $335week
10$800$450you save $350week
11$880$450you save $430week
12$960$450you save $510week
13$1,040$450you save $590week
14$1,120$450you save $670week
15$1,200$525you save $67528-day
16$1,280$525you save $75528-day
17$1,360$525you save $83528-day
18$1,440$525you save $91528-day
19$1,520$525you save $99528-day
20$1,600$525you save $1,07528-day
21$1,680$525you save $1,15528-day
22$1,760$525you save $1,23528-day
23$1,840$525you save $1,31528-day
24$1,920$525you save $1,39528-day
25$2,000$525you save $1,47528-day
26$2,080$525you save $1,55528-day
27$2,160$525you save $1,63528-day
28$2,240$525you save $1,71528-day
29$2,320$605you save $1,715day
30$2,400$685you save $1,715day
31$2,480$750you save $1,730week
32$2,560$750you save $1,810week
33$2,640$750you save $1,890week
34$2,720$750you save $1,970week
35$2,800$750you save $2,050week

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.