When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat Mini Track Loader by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $150 day rate would be $600, but the weekly rate caps it at $525.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat Mini Track Loader on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,575 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.

Bobcat Mini Track Loader

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Ryan Stein · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $150
Week: $525
28 days: $1,575

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $600. On the week rate it is $525.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $2,700. On the 28-day rate it is $1,575.

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 Bobcat Mini Track Loader, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$150	$150	—	day
2	$300	$300	—	day
3	$450	$450	—	day
4	$600	$525	you save $75	week
5	$750	$525	you save $225	week
6	$900	$525	you save $375	week
7	$1,050	$525	you save $525	week
8	$1,200	$675	you save $525	week
9	$1,350	$825	you save $525	week
10	$1,500	$975	you save $525	week
11	$1,650	$1,050	you save $600	week
12	$1,800	$1,050	you save $750	week
13	$1,950	$1,050	you save $900	week
14	$2,100	$1,050	you save $1,050	week
15	$2,250	$1,200	you save $1,050	week
16	$2,400	$1,350	you save $1,050	week
17	$2,550	$1,500	you save $1,050	week
18	$2,700	$1,575	you save $1,125	28-day
19	$2,850	$1,575	you save $1,275	28-day
20	$3,000	$1,575	you save $1,425	28-day
21	$3,150	$1,575	you save $1,575	28-day
22	$3,300	$1,575	you save $1,725	28-day
23	$3,450	$1,575	you save $1,875	28-day
24	$3,600	$1,575	you save $2,025	28-day
25	$3,750	$1,575	you save $2,175	28-day
26	$3,900	$1,575	you save $2,325	28-day
27	$4,050	$1,575	you save $2,475	28-day
28	$4,200	$1,575	you save $2,625	28-day
29	$4,350	$1,725	you save $2,625	day
30	$4,500	$1,875	you save $2,625	day
31	$4,650	$2,025	you save $2,625	day
32	$4,800	$2,100	you save $2,700	week
33	$4,950	$2,100	you save $2,850	week
34	$5,100	$2,100	you save $3,000	week
35	$5,250	$2,100	you save $3,150	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.