When is it cheaper to rent a Cat 259 D3 w/ Tooth Bucket and Pallet Forks by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $315 day rate would be $1,890, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,575.

When is it cheaper to rent a Cat 259 D3 w/ Tooth Bucket and Pallet Forks on the 28-day rate?

From day 26. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $6,300 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.

Cat 259 D3 w/ Tooth Bucket and Pallet Forks

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Ricardo Espinoza · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $315
Week: $1,575
28 days: $6,300

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $1,890. On the week rate it is $1,575.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $8,190. On the 28-day rate it is $6,300.

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 Cat 259 D3 w/ Tooth Bucket and Pallet Forks, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$315	$315	—	day
2	$630	$630	—	day
3	$945	$945	—	day
4	$1,260	$1,260	—	day
5	$1,575	$1,575	—	day
6	$1,890	$1,575	you save $315	week
7	$2,205	$1,575	you save $630	week
8	$2,520	$1,890	you save $630	week
9	$2,835	$2,205	you save $630	week
10	$3,150	$2,520	you save $630	week
11	$3,465	$2,835	you save $630	week
12	$3,780	$3,150	you save $630	week
13	$4,095	$3,150	you save $945	week
14	$4,410	$3,150	you save $1,260	week
15	$4,725	$3,465	you save $1,260	week
16	$5,040	$3,780	you save $1,260	week
17	$5,355	$4,095	you save $1,260	week
18	$5,670	$4,410	you save $1,260	week
19	$5,985	$4,725	you save $1,260	week
20	$6,300	$4,725	you save $1,575	week
21	$6,615	$4,725	you save $1,890	week
22	$6,930	$5,040	you save $1,890	week
23	$7,245	$5,355	you save $1,890	week
24	$7,560	$5,670	you save $1,890	week
25	$7,875	$5,985	you save $1,890	week
26	$8,190	$6,300	you save $1,890	28-day
27	$8,505	$6,300	you save $2,205	28-day
28	$8,820	$6,300	you save $2,520	28-day
29	$9,135	$6,615	you save $2,520	day
30	$9,450	$6,930	you save $2,520	day
31	$9,765	$7,245	you save $2,520	day
32	$10,080	$7,560	you save $2,520	day
33	$10,395	$7,875	you save $2,520	day
34	$10,710	$7,875	you save $2,835	week
35	$11,025	$7,875	you save $3,150	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 · 26 days: $6,300
Rental protection (RPP): $945
Service fee: $630
Estimated total: $7,875

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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.