When is it cheaper to rent a front loader tractor by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $450 day rate would be $2,250, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,850.

When is it cheaper to rent a front loader tractor on the 28-day rate?

From day 26. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $7,400 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.

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Travis Whipple · Front End Loader

Day: $450
Week: $1,850
28 days: $7,400

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $2,250. On the week rate it is $1,850.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $11,700. On the 28-day rate it is $7,400.

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 front loader tractor, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$450	$450	—	day
2	$900	$900	—	day
3	$1,350	$1,350	—	day
4	$1,800	$1,800	—	day
5	$2,250	$1,850	you save $400	week
6	$2,700	$1,850	you save $850	week
7	$3,150	$1,850	you save $1,300	week
8	$3,600	$2,300	you save $1,300	week
9	$4,050	$2,750	you save $1,300	week
10	$4,500	$3,200	you save $1,300	week
11	$4,950	$3,650	you save $1,300	week
12	$5,400	$3,700	you save $1,700	week
13	$5,850	$3,700	you save $2,150	week
14	$6,300	$3,700	you save $2,600	week
15	$6,750	$4,150	you save $2,600	week
16	$7,200	$4,600	you save $2,600	week
17	$7,650	$5,050	you save $2,600	week
18	$8,100	$5,500	you save $2,600	week
19	$8,550	$5,550	you save $3,000	week
20	$9,000	$5,550	you save $3,450	week
21	$9,450	$5,550	you save $3,900	week
22	$9,900	$6,000	you save $3,900	week
23	$10,350	$6,450	you save $3,900	week
24	$10,800	$6,900	you save $3,900	week
25	$11,250	$7,350	you save $3,900	week
26	$11,700	$7,400	you save $4,300	28-day
27	$12,150	$7,400	you save $4,750	28-day
28	$12,600	$7,400	you save $5,200	28-day
29	$13,050	$7,850	you save $5,200	day
30	$13,500	$8,300	you save $5,200	day
31	$13,950	$8,750	you save $5,200	day
32	$14,400	$9,200	you save $5,200	day
33	$14,850	$9,250	you save $5,600	week
34	$15,300	$9,250	you save $6,050	week
35	$15,750	$9,250	you save $6,500	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 · 26 days: $7,400
Rental protection (RPP): $1,110
Service fee: $740
Estimated total: $9,250

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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.