When is it cheaper to rent a Articulated Loader by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $225 day rate would be $675, but the weekly rate caps it at $525.

When is it cheaper to rent a Articulated Loader on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,750 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.

Articulated Loader

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Scotty Robinson · Loaders - Wheeled

Day: $225
Week: $525
28 days: $1,750

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $675. On the week rate it is $525.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $4,950. On the 28-day rate it is $1,750.

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 Articulated Loader, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$225	$225	—	day
2	$450	$450	—	day
3	$675	$525	you save $150	week
4	$900	$525	you save $375	week
5	$1,125	$525	you save $600	week
6	$1,350	$525	you save $825	week
7	$1,575	$525	you save $1,050	week
8	$1,800	$750	you save $1,050	week
9	$2,025	$975	you save $1,050	week
10	$2,250	$1,050	you save $1,200	week
11	$2,475	$1,050	you save $1,425	week
12	$2,700	$1,050	you save $1,650	week
13	$2,925	$1,050	you save $1,875	week
14	$3,150	$1,050	you save $2,100	week
15	$3,375	$1,275	you save $2,100	week
16	$3,600	$1,500	you save $2,100	week
17	$3,825	$1,575	you save $2,250	week
18	$4,050	$1,575	you save $2,475	week
19	$4,275	$1,575	you save $2,700	week
20	$4,500	$1,575	you save $2,925	week
21	$4,725	$1,575	you save $3,150	week
22	$4,950	$1,750	you save $3,200	28-day
23	$5,175	$1,750	you save $3,425	28-day
24	$5,400	$1,750	you save $3,650	28-day
25	$5,625	$1,750	you save $3,875	28-day
26	$5,850	$1,750	you save $4,100	28-day
27	$6,075	$1,750	you save $4,325	28-day
28	$6,300	$1,750	you save $4,550	28-day
29	$6,525	$1,975	you save $4,550	day
30	$6,750	$2,200	you save $4,550	day
31	$6,975	$2,275	you save $4,700	week
32	$7,200	$2,275	you save $4,925	week
33	$7,425	$2,275	you save $5,150	week
34	$7,650	$2,275	you save $5,375	week
35	$7,875	$2,275	you save $5,600	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 · 22 days: $1,750
Rental protection (RPP): $262.50
Service fee: $175
Estimated total: $2,187.50

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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.