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.

RAM 2500 Pick-up Truck

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ARC Landscaping Inc · Pickup

Day
$120
Week
$360
28 days
$1,080

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $480. On the week rate it is $360.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $2,040. On the 28-day rate it is $1,080.

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 RAM 2500 Pick-up Truck, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$120$120—day
2$240$240—day
3$360$360—day
4$480$360you save $120week
5$600$360you save $240week
6$720$360you save $360week
7$840$360you save $480week
8$960$480you save $480week
9$1,080$600you save $480week
10$1,200$720you save $480week
11$1,320$720you save $600week
12$1,440$720you save $720week
13$1,560$720you save $840week
14$1,680$720you save $960week
15$1,800$840you save $960week
16$1,920$960you save $960week
17$2,040$1,080you save $96028-day
18$2,160$1,080you save $1,08028-day
19$2,280$1,080you save $1,20028-day
20$2,400$1,080you save $1,32028-day
21$2,520$1,080you save $1,44028-day
22$2,640$1,080you save $1,56028-day
23$2,760$1,080you save $1,68028-day
24$2,880$1,080you save $1,80028-day
25$3,000$1,080you save $1,92028-day
26$3,120$1,080you save $2,04028-day
27$3,240$1,080you save $2,16028-day
28$3,360$1,080you save $2,28028-day
29$3,480$1,200you save $2,280day
30$3,600$1,320you save $2,280day
31$3,720$1,440you save $2,280day
32$3,840$1,440you save $2,400week
33$3,960$1,440you save $2,520week
34$4,080$1,440you save $2,640week
35$4,200$1,440you save $2,760week

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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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.