When is it cheaper to rent a Loader attachment by the week than by the day?

From day 2. 2 days at the $465 day rate would be $930, but the weekly rate caps it at $625.

When is it cheaper to rent a Loader attachment on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,400 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.

Loader attachment

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Brandon Bentz · Loaders - Skid Steers - Attachments

Day: $465
Week: $625
28 days: $2,400

Daily stops winning on

day 2

2 days at the day rate would be $930. On the week rate it is $625.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $10,695. On the 28-day rate it is $2,400.

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 Loader attachment, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$465	$465	—	day
2	$930	$625	you save $305	week
3	$1,395	$625	you save $770	week
4	$1,860	$625	you save $1,235	week
5	$2,325	$625	you save $1,700	week
6	$2,790	$625	you save $2,165	week
7	$3,255	$625	you save $2,630	week
8	$3,720	$1,090	you save $2,630	week
9	$4,185	$1,250	you save $2,935	week
10	$4,650	$1,250	you save $3,400	week
11	$5,115	$1,250	you save $3,865	week
12	$5,580	$1,250	you save $4,330	week
13	$6,045	$1,250	you save $4,795	week
14	$6,510	$1,250	you save $5,260	week
15	$6,975	$1,715	you save $5,260	week
16	$7,440	$1,875	you save $5,565	week
17	$7,905	$1,875	you save $6,030	week
18	$8,370	$1,875	you save $6,495	week
19	$8,835	$1,875	you save $6,960	week
20	$9,300	$1,875	you save $7,425	week
21	$9,765	$1,875	you save $7,890	week
22	$10,230	$2,340	you save $7,890	week
23	$10,695	$2,400	you save $8,295	28-day
24	$11,160	$2,400	you save $8,760	28-day
25	$11,625	$2,400	you save $9,225	28-day
26	$12,090	$2,400	you save $9,690	28-day
27	$12,555	$2,400	you save $10,155	28-day
28	$13,020	$2,400	you save $10,620	28-day
29	$13,485	$2,865	you save $10,620	day
30	$13,950	$3,025	you save $10,925	week
31	$14,415	$3,025	you save $11,390	week
32	$14,880	$3,025	you save $11,855	week
33	$15,345	$3,025	you save $12,320	week
34	$15,810	$3,025	you save $12,785	week
35	$16,275	$3,025	you save $13,250	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 · 23 days: $2,400
Rental protection (RPP): $360
Service fee: $240
Estimated total: $3,000

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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.