When is it cheaper to rent a 7 x 14 hydraulic dump trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $185 day rate would be $925, but the weekly rate caps it at $775.

When is it cheaper to rent a 7 x 14 hydraulic dump trailer 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.

7 x 14 hydraulic dump trailer

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Shawn Rendon · Dump Trailer

Day: $185
Week: $775
28 days: $3,000

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $925. On the week rate it is $775.

Weekly stops winning on

day 25

25 days at the day rate would be $4,625. 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 7 x 14 hydraulic dump trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$185	$185	—	day
2	$370	$370	—	day
3	$555	$555	—	day
4	$740	$740	—	day
5	$925	$775	you save $150	week
6	$1,110	$775	you save $335	week
7	$1,295	$775	you save $520	week
8	$1,480	$960	you save $520	week
9	$1,665	$1,145	you save $520	week
10	$1,850	$1,330	you save $520	week
11	$2,035	$1,515	you save $520	week
12	$2,220	$1,550	you save $670	week
13	$2,405	$1,550	you save $855	week
14	$2,590	$1,550	you save $1,040	week
15	$2,775	$1,735	you save $1,040	week
16	$2,960	$1,920	you save $1,040	week
17	$3,145	$2,105	you save $1,040	week
18	$3,330	$2,290	you save $1,040	week
19	$3,515	$2,325	you save $1,190	week
20	$3,700	$2,325	you save $1,375	week
21	$3,885	$2,325	you save $1,560	week
22	$4,070	$2,510	you save $1,560	week
23	$4,255	$2,695	you save $1,560	week
24	$4,440	$2,880	you save $1,560	week
25	$4,625	$3,000	you save $1,625	28-day
26	$4,810	$3,000	you save $1,810	28-day
27	$4,995	$3,000	you save $1,995	28-day
28	$5,180	$3,000	you save $2,180	28-day
29	$5,365	$3,185	you save $2,180	day
30	$5,550	$3,370	you save $2,180	day
31	$5,735	$3,555	you save $2,180	day
32	$5,920	$3,740	you save $2,180	day
33	$6,105	$3,775	you save $2,330	week
34	$6,290	$3,775	you save $2,515	week
35	$6,475	$3,775	you save $2,700	week

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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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.