When is it cheaper to rent a CAT 259D3 Skid Steer Loader by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $280 day rate would be $1,400, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,200.

When is it cheaper to rent a CAT 259D3 Skid Steer Loader on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,300 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.

CAT 259D3 Skid Steer Loader

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Kristopher Griffing · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $280
Week: $1,200
28 days: $3,300

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $1,400. On the week rate it is $1,200.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $5,040. On the 28-day rate it is $3,300.

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 CAT 259D3 Skid Steer Loader, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$280	$280	—	day
2	$560	$560	—	day
3	$840	$840	—	day
4	$1,120	$1,120	—	day
5	$1,400	$1,200	you save $200	week
6	$1,680	$1,200	you save $480	week
7	$1,960	$1,200	you save $760	week
8	$2,240	$1,480	you save $760	week
9	$2,520	$1,760	you save $760	week
10	$2,800	$2,040	you save $760	week
11	$3,080	$2,320	you save $760	week
12	$3,360	$2,400	you save $960	week
13	$3,640	$2,400	you save $1,240	week
14	$3,920	$2,400	you save $1,520	week
15	$4,200	$2,680	you save $1,520	week
16	$4,480	$2,960	you save $1,520	week
17	$4,760	$3,240	you save $1,520	week
18	$5,040	$3,300	you save $1,740	28-day
19	$5,320	$3,300	you save $2,020	28-day
20	$5,600	$3,300	you save $2,300	28-day
21	$5,880	$3,300	you save $2,580	28-day
22	$6,160	$3,300	you save $2,860	28-day
23	$6,440	$3,300	you save $3,140	28-day
24	$6,720	$3,300	you save $3,420	28-day
25	$7,000	$3,300	you save $3,700	28-day
26	$7,280	$3,300	you save $3,980	28-day
27	$7,560	$3,300	you save $4,260	28-day
28	$7,840	$3,300	you save $4,540	28-day
29	$8,120	$3,580	you save $4,540	day
30	$8,400	$3,860	you save $4,540	day
31	$8,680	$4,140	you save $4,540	day
32	$8,960	$4,420	you save $4,540	day
33	$9,240	$4,500	you save $4,740	week
34	$9,520	$4,500	you save $5,020	week
35	$9,800	$4,500	you save $5,300	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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The numbers come from one operator’s published rates, so the tool needs to know whose.

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.