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.

12x7 Utility Trailer

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Ken Wheeler III · Small Utility Trailers

Day
$50
Week
$249
28 days
$750

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $250. On the week rate it is $249.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $1,100. On the 28-day rate it is $750.

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 12x7 Utility Trailer, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$50$50—day
2$100$100—day
3$150$150—day
4$200$200—day
5$250$249you save $1week
6$300$249you save $51week
7$350$249you save $101week
8$400$299you save $101week
9$450$349you save $101week
10$500$399you save $101week
11$550$449you save $101week
12$600$498you save $102week
13$650$498you save $152week
14$700$498you save $202week
15$750$548you save $202week
16$800$598you save $202week
17$850$648you save $202week
18$900$698you save $202week
19$950$747you save $203week
20$1,000$747you save $253week
21$1,050$747you save $303week
22$1,100$750you save $35028-day
23$1,150$750you save $40028-day
24$1,200$750you save $45028-day
25$1,250$750you save $50028-day
26$1,300$750you save $55028-day
27$1,350$750you save $60028-day
28$1,400$750you save $65028-day
29$1,450$800you save $650day
30$1,500$850you save $650day
31$1,550$900you save $650day
32$1,600$950you save $650day
33$1,650$999you save $651week
34$1,700$999you save $701week
35$1,750$999you save $751week

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.