When is it cheaper to rent a Tractor Loader AND Dump Trailer W/box blade by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $514 day rate would be $2,570, but the weekly rate caps it at $2,345.

When is it cheaper to rent a Tractor Loader AND Dump Trailer W/box blade on the 28-day rate?

From day 17. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $5,745 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.

Tractor Loader AND Dump Trailer W/box blade

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Richard Aguilar · Dump Trailer

Day: $514
Week: $2,345
28 days: $5,745

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $2,570. On the week rate it is $2,345.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $8,738. On the 28-day rate it is $5,745.

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 Tractor Loader AND Dump Trailer W/box blade, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$514	$514	—	day
2	$1,028	$1,028	—	day
3	$1,542	$1,542	—	day
4	$2,056	$2,056	—	day
5	$2,570	$2,345	you save $225	week
6	$3,084	$2,345	you save $739	week
7	$3,598	$2,345	you save $1,253	week
8	$4,112	$2,859	you save $1,253	week
9	$4,626	$3,373	you save $1,253	week
10	$5,140	$3,887	you save $1,253	week
11	$5,654	$4,401	you save $1,253	week
12	$6,168	$4,690	you save $1,478	week
13	$6,682	$4,690	you save $1,992	week
14	$7,196	$4,690	you save $2,506	week
15	$7,710	$5,204	you save $2,506	week
16	$8,224	$5,718	you save $2,506	week
17	$8,738	$5,745	you save $2,993	28-day
18	$9,252	$5,745	you save $3,507	28-day
19	$9,766	$5,745	you save $4,021	28-day
20	$10,280	$5,745	you save $4,535	28-day
21	$10,794	$5,745	you save $5,049	28-day
22	$11,308	$5,745	you save $5,563	28-day
23	$11,822	$5,745	you save $6,077	28-day
24	$12,336	$5,745	you save $6,591	28-day
25	$12,850	$5,745	you save $7,105	28-day
26	$13,364	$5,745	you save $7,619	28-day
27	$13,878	$5,745	you save $8,133	28-day
28	$14,392	$5,745	you save $8,647	28-day
29	$14,906	$6,259	you save $8,647	day
30	$15,420	$6,773	you save $8,647	day
31	$15,934	$7,287	you save $8,647	day
32	$16,448	$7,801	you save $8,647	day
33	$16,962	$8,090	you save $8,872	week
34	$17,476	$8,090	you save $9,386	week
35	$17,990	$8,090	you save $9,900	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 · 17 days: $5,745
Rental protection (RPP): $861.75
Service fee: $574.50
Estimated total: $7,181.25

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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.