When is it cheaper to rent a Niftylift Towable Boom Lift by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $270 day rate would be $1,080, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,077.

When is it cheaper to rent a Niftylift Towable Boom Lift on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,997 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.

Niftylift Towable Boom Lift

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Clint Riester · Manlifts - Boom - Towable

Day: $270
Week: $1,077
28 days: $2,997

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,080. On the week rate it is $1,077.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $4,860. On the 28-day rate it is $2,997.

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 Niftylift Towable Boom Lift, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$270	$270	—	day
2	$540	$540	—	day
3	$810	$810	—	day
4	$1,080	$1,077	you save $3	week
5	$1,350	$1,077	you save $273	week
6	$1,620	$1,077	you save $543	week
7	$1,890	$1,077	you save $813	week
8	$2,160	$1,347	you save $813	week
9	$2,430	$1,617	you save $813	week
10	$2,700	$1,887	you save $813	week
11	$2,970	$2,154	you save $816	week
12	$3,240	$2,154	you save $1,086	week
13	$3,510	$2,154	you save $1,356	week
14	$3,780	$2,154	you save $1,626	week
15	$4,050	$2,424	you save $1,626	week
16	$4,320	$2,694	you save $1,626	week
17	$4,590	$2,964	you save $1,626	week
18	$4,860	$2,997	you save $1,863	28-day
19	$5,130	$2,997	you save $2,133	28-day
20	$5,400	$2,997	you save $2,403	28-day
21	$5,670	$2,997	you save $2,673	28-day
22	$5,940	$2,997	you save $2,943	28-day
23	$6,210	$2,997	you save $3,213	28-day
24	$6,480	$2,997	you save $3,483	28-day
25	$6,750	$2,997	you save $3,753	28-day
26	$7,020	$2,997	you save $4,023	28-day
27	$7,290	$2,997	you save $4,293	28-day
28	$7,560	$2,997	you save $4,563	28-day
29	$7,830	$3,267	you save $4,563	day
30	$8,100	$3,537	you save $4,563	day
31	$8,370	$3,807	you save $4,563	day
32	$8,640	$4,074	you save $4,566	week
33	$8,910	$4,074	you save $4,836	week
34	$9,180	$4,074	you save $5,106	week
35	$9,450	$4,074	you save $5,376	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 · 18 days: $2,997
Rental protection (RPP): $449.55
Service fee: $299.70
Estimated total: $3,746.25

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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.