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

From day 2. 2 days at the $80 day rate would be $160, but the weekly rate caps it at $150.

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

From day 16. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $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.

Utility trailer

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David Manzitto

Day: $80
Week: $150
28 days: $400

Daily stops winning on

day 2

2 days at the day rate would be $160. On the week rate it is $150.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $1,280. On the 28-day rate it is $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 Utility trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$80	$80	—	day
2	$160	$150	you save $10	week
3	$240	$150	you save $90	week
4	$320	$150	you save $170	week
5	$400	$150	you save $250	week
6	$480	$150	you save $330	week
7	$560	$150	you save $410	week
8	$640	$230	you save $410	week
9	$720	$300	you save $420	week
10	$800	$300	you save $500	week
11	$880	$300	you save $580	week
12	$960	$300	you save $660	week
13	$1,040	$300	you save $740	week
14	$1,120	$300	you save $820	week
15	$1,200	$380	you save $820	week
16	$1,280	$400	you save $880	28-day
17	$1,360	$400	you save $960	28-day
18	$1,440	$400	you save $1,040	28-day
19	$1,520	$400	you save $1,120	28-day
20	$1,600	$400	you save $1,200	28-day
21	$1,680	$400	you save $1,280	28-day
22	$1,760	$400	you save $1,360	28-day
23	$1,840	$400	you save $1,440	28-day
24	$1,920	$400	you save $1,520	28-day
25	$2,000	$400	you save $1,600	28-day
26	$2,080	$400	you save $1,680	28-day
27	$2,160	$400	you save $1,760	28-day
28	$2,240	$400	you save $1,840	28-day
29	$2,320	$480	you save $1,840	day
30	$2,400	$550	you save $1,850	week
31	$2,480	$550	you save $1,930	week
32	$2,560	$550	you save $2,010	week
33	$2,640	$550	you save $2,090	week
34	$2,720	$550	you save $2,170	week
35	$2,800	$550	you save $2,250	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 · 16 days: $400
Rental protection (RPP): $60
Service fee: $40
Estimated total: $500

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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.