When is it cheaper to rent a 40 ft Big Tex Gooseneck Trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $127.50 day rate would be $892.50, but the weekly rate caps it at $850.

When is it cheaper to rent a 40 ft Big Tex Gooseneck Trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 21. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,550 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.

40 ft Big Tex Gooseneck Trailer

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Olusola O Dosunmu Dosunmu · Lowboy / RGN

Day: $127.50
Week: $850
28 days: $2,550

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $892.50. On the week rate it is $850.

Weekly stops winning on

day 21

21 days at the day rate would be $2,677.50. On the 28-day rate it is $2,550.

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 40 ft Big Tex Gooseneck Trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$127.50	$127.50	—	day
2	$255	$255	—	day
3	$382.50	$382.50	—	day
4	$510	$510	—	day
5	$637.50	$637.50	—	day
6	$765	$765	—	day
7	$892.50	$850	you save $42.50	week
8	$1,020	$977.50	you save $42.50	week
9	$1,147.50	$1,105	you save $42.50	week
10	$1,275	$1,232.50	you save $42.50	week
11	$1,402.50	$1,360	you save $42.50	week
12	$1,530	$1,487.50	you save $42.50	week
13	$1,657.50	$1,615	you save $42.50	week
14	$1,785	$1,700	you save $85	week
15	$1,912.50	$1,827.50	you save $85	week
16	$2,040	$1,955	you save $85	week
17	$2,167.50	$2,082.50	you save $85	week
18	$2,295	$2,210	you save $85	week
19	$2,422.50	$2,337.50	you save $85	week
20	$2,550	$2,465	you save $85	week
21	$2,677.50	$2,550	you save $127.50	28-day
22	$2,805	$2,550	you save $255	28-day
23	$2,932.50	$2,550	you save $382.50	28-day
24	$3,060	$2,550	you save $510	28-day
25	$3,187.50	$2,550	you save $637.50	28-day
26	$3,315	$2,550	you save $765	28-day
27	$3,442.50	$2,550	you save $892.50	28-day
28	$3,570	$2,550	you save $1,020	28-day
29	$3,697.50	$2,677.50	you save $1,020	day
30	$3,825	$2,805	you save $1,020	day
31	$3,952.50	$2,932.50	you save $1,020	day
32	$4,080	$3,060	you save $1,020	day
33	$4,207.50	$3,187.50	you save $1,020	day
34	$4,335	$3,315	you save $1,020	day
35	$4,462.50	$3,400	you save $1,062.50	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.