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.

Ford F650 Dump Truck with Chipper 12XPC Combo

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Cristal Flawless · Dump Truck

Day
$383
Week
$1,662
28 days
$4,941

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $1,915. On the week rate it is $1,662.

Weekly stops winning on

day 19

19 days at the day rate would be $7,277. On the 28-day rate it is $4,941.

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 Ford F650 Dump Truck with Chipper 12XPC Combo, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$383$383—day
2$766$766—day
3$1,149$1,149—day
4$1,532$1,532—day
5$1,915$1,662you save $253week
6$2,298$1,662you save $636week
7$2,681$1,662you save $1,019week
8$3,064$2,045you save $1,019week
9$3,447$2,428you save $1,019week
10$3,830$2,811you save $1,019week
11$4,213$3,194you save $1,019week
12$4,596$3,324you save $1,272week
13$4,979$3,324you save $1,655week
14$5,362$3,324you save $2,038week
15$5,745$3,707you save $2,038week
16$6,128$4,090you save $2,038week
17$6,511$4,473you save $2,038week
18$6,894$4,856you save $2,038week
19$7,277$4,941you save $2,33628-day
20$7,660$4,941you save $2,71928-day
21$8,043$4,941you save $3,10228-day
22$8,426$4,941you save $3,48528-day
23$8,809$4,941you save $3,86828-day
24$9,192$4,941you save $4,25128-day
25$9,575$4,941you save $4,63428-day
26$9,958$4,941you save $5,01728-day
27$10,341$4,941you save $5,40028-day
28$10,724$4,941you save $5,78328-day
29$11,107$5,324you save $5,783day
30$11,490$5,707you save $5,783day
31$11,873$6,090you save $5,783day
32$12,256$6,473you save $5,783day
33$12,639$6,603you save $6,036week
34$13,022$6,603you save $6,419week
35$13,405$6,603you save $6,802week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 19 days
$4,941
Rental protection (RPP)
$741.15
Service fee
$494.10
Estimated total
$6,176.25

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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.