When is it cheaper to rent a Equipment Trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $100 day rate would be $600, but the weekly rate caps it at $550.

When is it cheaper to rent a Equipment Trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,450 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.

Equipment Trailer

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Jason Chandler · Flatbed

Day: $100
Week: $550
28 days: $1,450

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $600. On the week rate it is $550.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $1,800. On the 28-day rate it is $1,450.

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 Equipment Trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$100	$100	—	day
2	$200	$200	—	day
3	$300	$300	—	day
4	$400	$400	—	day
5	$500	$500	—	day
6	$600	$550	you save $50	week
7	$700	$550	you save $150	week
8	$800	$650	you save $150	week
9	$900	$750	you save $150	week
10	$1,000	$850	you save $150	week
11	$1,100	$950	you save $150	week
12	$1,200	$1,050	you save $150	week
13	$1,300	$1,100	you save $200	week
14	$1,400	$1,100	you save $300	week
15	$1,500	$1,200	you save $300	week
16	$1,600	$1,300	you save $300	week
17	$1,700	$1,400	you save $300	week
18	$1,800	$1,450	you save $350	28-day
19	$1,900	$1,450	you save $450	28-day
20	$2,000	$1,450	you save $550	28-day
21	$2,100	$1,450	you save $650	28-day
22	$2,200	$1,450	you save $750	28-day
23	$2,300	$1,450	you save $850	28-day
24	$2,400	$1,450	you save $950	28-day
25	$2,500	$1,450	you save $1,050	28-day
26	$2,600	$1,450	you save $1,150	28-day
27	$2,700	$1,450	you save $1,250	28-day
28	$2,800	$1,450	you save $1,350	28-day
29	$2,900	$1,550	you save $1,350	day
30	$3,000	$1,650	you save $1,350	day
31	$3,100	$1,750	you save $1,350	day
32	$3,200	$1,850	you save $1,350	day
33	$3,300	$1,950	you save $1,350	day
34	$3,400	$2,000	you save $1,400	week
35	$3,500	$2,000	you save $1,500	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.