When is it cheaper to rent a ED Trailers 12ft Dump Trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $125 day rate would be $375, but the weekly rate caps it at $340.

When is it cheaper to rent a ED Trailers 12ft Dump Trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,100 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.

ED Trailers 12ft Dump Trailer

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Joseph Patchen · Dump Trailer

Day: $125
Week: $340
28 days: $1,100

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $375. On the week rate it is $340.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $2,750. On the 28-day rate it is $1,100.

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 ED Trailers 12ft Dump Trailer, 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	$340	you save $35	week
4	$500	$340	you save $160	week
5	$625	$340	you save $285	week
6	$750	$340	you save $410	week
7	$875	$340	you save $535	week
8	$1,000	$465	you save $535	week
9	$1,125	$590	you save $535	week
10	$1,250	$680	you save $570	week
11	$1,375	$680	you save $695	week
12	$1,500	$680	you save $820	week
13	$1,625	$680	you save $945	week
14	$1,750	$680	you save $1,070	week
15	$1,875	$805	you save $1,070	week
16	$2,000	$930	you save $1,070	week
17	$2,125	$1,020	you save $1,105	week
18	$2,250	$1,020	you save $1,230	week
19	$2,375	$1,020	you save $1,355	week
20	$2,500	$1,020	you save $1,480	week
21	$2,625	$1,020	you save $1,605	week
22	$2,750	$1,100	you save $1,650	28-day
23	$2,875	$1,100	you save $1,775	28-day
24	$3,000	$1,100	you save $1,900	28-day
25	$3,125	$1,100	you save $2,025	28-day
26	$3,250	$1,100	you save $2,150	28-day
27	$3,375	$1,100	you save $2,275	28-day
28	$3,500	$1,100	you save $2,400	28-day
29	$3,625	$1,225	you save $2,400	day
30	$3,750	$1,350	you save $2,400	day
31	$3,875	$1,440	you save $2,435	week
32	$4,000	$1,440	you save $2,560	week
33	$4,125	$1,440	you save $2,685	week
34	$4,250	$1,440	you save $2,810	week
35	$4,375	$1,440	you save $2,935	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 · 22 days: $1,100
Rental protection (RPP): $165
Service fee: $110
Estimated total: $1,375

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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.