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.

Car Jack

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adam charles · Hydraulic Tools

Day
$40
Week
$60
28 days
$180

Daily stops winning on

day 2

2 days at the day rate would be $80. On the week rate it is $60.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $640. On the 28-day rate it is $180.

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 Car Jack, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$40$40—day
2$80$60you save $20week
3$120$60you save $60week
4$160$60you save $100week
5$200$60you save $140week
6$240$60you save $180week
7$280$60you save $220week
8$320$100you save $220week
9$360$120you save $240week
10$400$120you save $280week
11$440$120you save $320week
12$480$120you save $360week
13$520$120you save $400week
14$560$120you save $440week
15$600$160you save $440week
16$640$180you save $46028-day
17$680$180you save $50028-day
18$720$180you save $54028-day
19$760$180you save $58028-day
20$800$180you save $62028-day
21$840$180you save $66028-day
22$880$180you save $70028-day
23$920$180you save $74028-day
24$960$180you save $78028-day
25$1,000$180you save $82028-day
26$1,040$180you save $86028-day
27$1,080$180you save $90028-day
28$1,120$180you save $94028-day
29$1,160$220you save $940day
30$1,200$240you save $960week
31$1,240$240you save $1,000week
32$1,280$240you save $1,040week
33$1,320$240you save $1,080week
34$1,360$240you save $1,120week
35$1,400$240you save $1,160week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 16 days
$180
Rental protection (RPP)
$27
Service fee
$18
Estimated total
$225

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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.