When is it cheaper to rent a 7x20 Car Hauler by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $85 day rate would be $425, but the weekly rate caps it at $350.

When is it cheaper to rent a 7x20 Car Hauler on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,100 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.

7x20 Car Hauler

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Bryan Rose · Car Hauler

Day: $85
Week: $350
28 days: $1,100

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $425. On the week rate it is $350.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $1,870. On the 28-day rate it is $1,100.

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 7x20 Car Hauler, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$85	$85	—	day
2	$170	$170	—	day
3	$255	$255	—	day
4	$340	$340	—	day
5	$425	$350	you save $75	week
6	$510	$350	you save $160	week
7	$595	$350	you save $245	week
8	$680	$435	you save $245	week
9	$765	$520	you save $245	week
10	$850	$605	you save $245	week
11	$935	$690	you save $245	week
12	$1,020	$700	you save $320	week
13	$1,105	$700	you save $405	week
14	$1,190	$700	you save $490	week
15	$1,275	$785	you save $490	week
16	$1,360	$870	you save $490	week
17	$1,445	$955	you save $490	week
18	$1,530	$1,040	you save $490	week
19	$1,615	$1,050	you save $565	week
20	$1,700	$1,050	you save $650	week
21	$1,785	$1,050	you save $735	week
22	$1,870	$1,100	you save $770	28-day
23	$1,955	$1,100	you save $855	28-day
24	$2,040	$1,100	you save $940	28-day
25	$2,125	$1,100	you save $1,025	28-day
26	$2,210	$1,100	you save $1,110	28-day
27	$2,295	$1,100	you save $1,195	28-day
28	$2,380	$1,100	you save $1,280	28-day
29	$2,465	$1,185	you save $1,280	day
30	$2,550	$1,270	you save $1,280	day
31	$2,635	$1,355	you save $1,280	day
32	$2,720	$1,440	you save $1,280	day
33	$2,805	$1,450	you save $1,355	week
34	$2,890	$1,450	you save $1,440	week
35	$2,975	$1,450	you save $1,525	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.