When is it cheaper to rent a 7x14 Dump Trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $120 day rate would be $840, but the weekly rate caps it at $722.

When is it cheaper to rent a 7x14 Dump Trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 26. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,700 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.

7x14 Dump Trailer

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Troy Wilson · Dump Trailer

Day: $120
Week: $722
28 days: $2,700

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $840. On the week rate it is $722.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $3,120. On the 28-day rate it is $2,700.

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 7x14 Dump Trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$120	$120	—	day
2	$240	$240	—	day
3	$360	$360	—	day
4	$480	$480	—	day
5	$600	$600	—	day
6	$720	$720	—	day
7	$840	$722	you save $118	week
8	$960	$842	you save $118	week
9	$1,080	$962	you save $118	week
10	$1,200	$1,082	you save $118	week
11	$1,320	$1,202	you save $118	week
12	$1,440	$1,322	you save $118	week
13	$1,560	$1,442	you save $118	week
14	$1,680	$1,444	you save $236	week
15	$1,800	$1,564	you save $236	week
16	$1,920	$1,684	you save $236	week
17	$2,040	$1,804	you save $236	week
18	$2,160	$1,924	you save $236	week
19	$2,280	$2,044	you save $236	week
20	$2,400	$2,164	you save $236	week
21	$2,520	$2,166	you save $354	week
22	$2,640	$2,286	you save $354	week
23	$2,760	$2,406	you save $354	week
24	$2,880	$2,526	you save $354	week
25	$3,000	$2,646	you save $354	week
26	$3,120	$2,700	you save $420	28-day
27	$3,240	$2,700	you save $540	28-day
28	$3,360	$2,700	you save $660	28-day
29	$3,480	$2,820	you save $660	day
30	$3,600	$2,940	you save $660	day
31	$3,720	$3,060	you save $660	day
32	$3,840	$3,180	you save $660	day
33	$3,960	$3,300	you save $660	day
34	$4,080	$3,420	you save $660	day
35	$4,200	$3,422	you save $778	week

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.