When is it cheaper to rent a Moffitt M5500 3Wheeled Truck Mounted Forklift by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $195 day rate would be $780, but the weekly rate caps it at $675.

When is it cheaper to rent a Moffitt M5500 3Wheeled Truck Mounted Forklift on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,040 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.

Moffitt M5500 3Wheeled Truck Mounted Forklift

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Mario Preciado

Day: $195
Week: $675
28 days: $2,040

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $780. On the week rate it is $675.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $4,290. On the 28-day rate it is $2,040.

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 Moffitt M5500 3Wheeled Truck Mounted Forklift, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$195	$195	—	day
2	$390	$390	—	day
3	$585	$585	—	day
4	$780	$675	you save $105	week
5	$975	$675	you save $300	week
6	$1,170	$675	you save $495	week
7	$1,365	$675	you save $690	week
8	$1,560	$870	you save $690	week
9	$1,755	$1,065	you save $690	week
10	$1,950	$1,260	you save $690	week
11	$2,145	$1,350	you save $795	week
12	$2,340	$1,350	you save $990	week
13	$2,535	$1,350	you save $1,185	week
14	$2,730	$1,350	you save $1,380	week
15	$2,925	$1,545	you save $1,380	week
16	$3,120	$1,740	you save $1,380	week
17	$3,315	$1,935	you save $1,380	week
18	$3,510	$2,025	you save $1,485	week
19	$3,705	$2,025	you save $1,680	week
20	$3,900	$2,025	you save $1,875	week
21	$4,095	$2,025	you save $2,070	week
22	$4,290	$2,040	you save $2,250	28-day
23	$4,485	$2,040	you save $2,445	28-day
24	$4,680	$2,040	you save $2,640	28-day
25	$4,875	$2,040	you save $2,835	28-day
26	$5,070	$2,040	you save $3,030	28-day
27	$5,265	$2,040	you save $3,225	28-day
28	$5,460	$2,040	you save $3,420	28-day
29	$5,655	$2,235	you save $3,420	day
30	$5,850	$2,430	you save $3,420	day
31	$6,045	$2,625	you save $3,420	day
32	$6,240	$2,715	you save $3,525	week
33	$6,435	$2,715	you save $3,720	week
34	$6,630	$2,715	you save $3,915	week
35	$6,825	$2,715	you save $4,110	week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 22 days: $2,040
Rental protection (RPP): $306
Service fee: $204
Estimated total: $2,550

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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.