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

From day 4. 4 days at the $140 day rate would be $560, but the weekly rate caps it at $500.

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

From day 17. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,400 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.

Forklift

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Eric A · Forklifts - Industrial

Day: $140
Week: $500
28 days: $1,400

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $560. On the week rate it is $500.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $2,380. On the 28-day rate it is $1,400.

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 Forklift, 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	$500	you save $60	week
5	$700	$500	you save $200	week
6	$840	$500	you save $340	week
7	$980	$500	you save $480	week
8	$1,120	$640	you save $480	week
9	$1,260	$780	you save $480	week
10	$1,400	$920	you save $480	week
11	$1,540	$1,000	you save $540	week
12	$1,680	$1,000	you save $680	week
13	$1,820	$1,000	you save $820	week
14	$1,960	$1,000	you save $960	week
15	$2,100	$1,140	you save $960	week
16	$2,240	$1,280	you save $960	week
17	$2,380	$1,400	you save $980	28-day
18	$2,520	$1,400	you save $1,120	28-day
19	$2,660	$1,400	you save $1,260	28-day
20	$2,800	$1,400	you save $1,400	28-day
21	$2,940	$1,400	you save $1,540	28-day
22	$3,080	$1,400	you save $1,680	28-day
23	$3,220	$1,400	you save $1,820	28-day
24	$3,360	$1,400	you save $1,960	28-day
25	$3,500	$1,400	you save $2,100	28-day
26	$3,640	$1,400	you save $2,240	28-day
27	$3,780	$1,400	you save $2,380	28-day
28	$3,920	$1,400	you save $2,520	28-day
29	$4,060	$1,540	you save $2,520	day
30	$4,200	$1,680	you save $2,520	day
31	$4,340	$1,820	you save $2,520	day
32	$4,480	$1,900	you save $2,580	week
33	$4,620	$1,900	you save $2,720	week
34	$4,760	$1,900	you save $2,860	week
35	$4,900	$1,900	you save $3,000	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: $1,400
Rental protection (RPP): $210
Service fee: $140
Estimated total: $1,750

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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.