When is it cheaper to rent a Compact Skid Steer Loader with Bucket and Grapple on the 28-day rate?

From day 26. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $7,350 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

Break-even duration

Q: When is it cheaper to rent a Compact Skid Steer Loader with Bucket and Grapple by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $350 day rate would be $2,100, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,950.

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.

Compact Skid Steer Loader with Bucket and Grapple

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Matthew Lowe · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $350
Week: $1,950
28 days: $7,350

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $2,100. On the week rate it is $1,950.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $9,100. On the 28-day rate it is $7,350.

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 Compact Skid Steer Loader with Bucket and Grapple, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$350	$350	—	day
2	$700	$700	—	day
3	$1,050	$1,050	—	day
4	$1,400	$1,400	—	day
5	$1,750	$1,750	—	day
6	$2,100	$1,950	you save $150	week
7	$2,450	$1,950	you save $500	week
8	$2,800	$2,300	you save $500	week
9	$3,150	$2,650	you save $500	week
10	$3,500	$3,000	you save $500	week
11	$3,850	$3,350	you save $500	week
12	$4,200	$3,700	you save $500	week
13	$4,550	$3,900	you save $650	week
14	$4,900	$3,900	you save $1,000	week
15	$5,250	$4,250	you save $1,000	week
16	$5,600	$4,600	you save $1,000	week
17	$5,950	$4,950	you save $1,000	week
18	$6,300	$5,300	you save $1,000	week
19	$6,650	$5,650	you save $1,000	week
20	$7,000	$5,850	you save $1,150	week
21	$7,350	$5,850	you save $1,500	week
22	$7,700	$6,200	you save $1,500	week
23	$8,050	$6,550	you save $1,500	week
24	$8,400	$6,900	you save $1,500	week
25	$8,750	$7,250	you save $1,500	week
26	$9,100	$7,350	you save $1,750	28-day
27	$9,450	$7,350	you save $2,100	28-day
28	$9,800	$7,350	you save $2,450	28-day
29	$10,150	$7,700	you save $2,450	day
30	$10,500	$8,050	you save $2,450	day
31	$10,850	$8,400	you save $2,450	day
32	$11,200	$8,750	you save $2,450	day
33	$11,550	$9,100	you save $2,450	day
34	$11,900	$9,300	you save $2,600	week
35	$12,250	$9,300	you save $2,950	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 · 26 days: $7,350
Rental protection (RPP): $1,102.50
Service fee: $735
Estimated total: $9,187.50

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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.