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

From day 6. 6 days at the $140 day rate would be $840, but the weekly rate caps it at $820.

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

From day 25. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,000 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.

Loader tractor

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Ryan Voll · Tractors - Attachments

Day: $140
Week: $820
28 days: $3,000

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $840. On the week rate it is $820.

Weekly stops winning on

day 25

25 days at the day rate would be $3,500. On the 28-day rate it is $3,000.

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 Loader tractor, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$140	$140	—	day
2	$280	$280	—	day
3	$420	$420	—	day
4	$560	$560	—	day
5	$700	$700	—	day
6	$840	$820	you save $20	week
7	$980	$820	you save $160	week
8	$1,120	$960	you save $160	week
9	$1,260	$1,100	you save $160	week
10	$1,400	$1,240	you save $160	week
11	$1,540	$1,380	you save $160	week
12	$1,680	$1,520	you save $160	week
13	$1,820	$1,640	you save $180	week
14	$1,960	$1,640	you save $320	week
15	$2,100	$1,780	you save $320	week
16	$2,240	$1,920	you save $320	week
17	$2,380	$2,060	you save $320	week
18	$2,520	$2,200	you save $320	week
19	$2,660	$2,340	you save $320	week
20	$2,800	$2,460	you save $340	week
21	$2,940	$2,460	you save $480	week
22	$3,080	$2,600	you save $480	week
23	$3,220	$2,740	you save $480	week
24	$3,360	$2,880	you save $480	week
25	$3,500	$3,000	you save $500	28-day
26	$3,640	$3,000	you save $640	28-day
27	$3,780	$3,000	you save $780	28-day
28	$3,920	$3,000	you save $920	28-day
29	$4,060	$3,140	you save $920	day
30	$4,200	$3,280	you save $920	day
31	$4,340	$3,420	you save $920	day
32	$4,480	$3,560	you save $920	day
33	$4,620	$3,700	you save $920	day
34	$4,760	$3,820	you save $940	week
35	$4,900	$3,820	you save $1,080	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 · 25 days: $3,000
Rental protection (RPP): $450
Service fee: $300
Estimated total: $3,750

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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.