When is it cheaper to rent a Skid steer by the week than by the day?

From day 2. 2 days at the $375 day rate would be $750, but the weekly rate caps it at $700.

When is it cheaper to rent a Skid steer on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,800 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.

Skid steer

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Bert Miller · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $375
Week: $700
28 days: $2,800

Daily stops winning on

day 2

2 days at the day rate would be $750. On the week rate it is $700.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $8,625. On the 28-day rate it is $2,800.

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 Skid steer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$375	$375	—	day
2	$750	$700	you save $50	week
3	$1,125	$700	you save $425	week
4	$1,500	$700	you save $800	week
5	$1,875	$700	you save $1,175	week
6	$2,250	$700	you save $1,550	week
7	$2,625	$700	you save $1,925	week
8	$3,000	$1,075	you save $1,925	week
9	$3,375	$1,400	you save $1,975	week
10	$3,750	$1,400	you save $2,350	week
11	$4,125	$1,400	you save $2,725	week
12	$4,500	$1,400	you save $3,100	week
13	$4,875	$1,400	you save $3,475	week
14	$5,250	$1,400	you save $3,850	week
15	$5,625	$1,775	you save $3,850	week
16	$6,000	$2,100	you save $3,900	week
17	$6,375	$2,100	you save $4,275	week
18	$6,750	$2,100	you save $4,650	week
19	$7,125	$2,100	you save $5,025	week
20	$7,500	$2,100	you save $5,400	week
21	$7,875	$2,100	you save $5,775	week
22	$8,250	$2,475	you save $5,775	week
23	$8,625	$2,800	you save $5,825	28-day
24	$9,000	$2,800	you save $6,200	28-day
25	$9,375	$2,800	you save $6,575	28-day
26	$9,750	$2,800	you save $6,950	28-day
27	$10,125	$2,800	you save $7,325	28-day
28	$10,500	$2,800	you save $7,700	28-day
29	$10,875	$3,175	you save $7,700	day
30	$11,250	$3,500	you save $7,750	week
31	$11,625	$3,500	you save $8,125	week
32	$12,000	$3,500	you save $8,500	week
33	$12,375	$3,500	you save $8,875	week
34	$12,750	$3,500	you save $9,250	week
35	$13,125	$3,500	you save $9,625	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.