When is it cheaper to rent a 54" Zero Turn(Commercial) by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $160 day rate would be $640, but the weekly rate caps it at $490.

When is it cheaper to rent a 54" Zero Turn(Commercial) on the 28-day rate?

From day 16. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,200 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.

54" Zero Turn(Commercial)

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Joseph Crumble · Lawn Mowers - Ride On

Day: $160
Week: $490
28 days: $1,200

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $640. On the week rate it is $490.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $2,560. On the 28-day rate it is $1,200.

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 54" Zero Turn(Commercial), days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$160	$160	—	day
2	$320	$320	—	day
3	$480	$480	—	day
4	$640	$490	you save $150	week
5	$800	$490	you save $310	week
6	$960	$490	you save $470	week
7	$1,120	$490	you save $630	week
8	$1,280	$650	you save $630	week
9	$1,440	$810	you save $630	week
10	$1,600	$970	you save $630	week
11	$1,760	$980	you save $780	week
12	$1,920	$980	you save $940	week
13	$2,080	$980	you save $1,100	week
14	$2,240	$980	you save $1,260	week
15	$2,400	$1,140	you save $1,260	week
16	$2,560	$1,200	you save $1,360	28-day
17	$2,720	$1,200	you save $1,520	28-day
18	$2,880	$1,200	you save $1,680	28-day
19	$3,040	$1,200	you save $1,840	28-day
20	$3,200	$1,200	you save $2,000	28-day
21	$3,360	$1,200	you save $2,160	28-day
22	$3,520	$1,200	you save $2,320	28-day
23	$3,680	$1,200	you save $2,480	28-day
24	$3,840	$1,200	you save $2,640	28-day
25	$4,000	$1,200	you save $2,800	28-day
26	$4,160	$1,200	you save $2,960	28-day
27	$4,320	$1,200	you save $3,120	28-day
28	$4,480	$1,200	you save $3,280	28-day
29	$4,640	$1,360	you save $3,280	day
30	$4,800	$1,520	you save $3,280	day
31	$4,960	$1,680	you save $3,280	day
32	$5,120	$1,690	you save $3,430	week
33	$5,280	$1,690	you save $3,590	week
34	$5,440	$1,690	you save $3,750	week
35	$5,600	$1,690	you save $3,910	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.