When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat MT100 Mini Loader by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $128 day rate would be $640, but the weekly rate caps it at $600.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat MT100 Mini Loader on the 28-day rate?

From day 26. 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.

Bobcat MT100 Mini Loader

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Max Sanchez · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $128
Week: $600
28 days: $2,400

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $640. On the week rate it is $600.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $3,328. 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 Bobcat MT100 Mini Loader, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$128	$128	—	day
2	$256	$256	—	day
3	$384	$384	—	day
4	$512	$512	—	day
5	$640	$600	you save $40	week
6	$768	$600	you save $168	week
7	$896	$600	you save $296	week
8	$1,024	$728	you save $296	week
9	$1,152	$856	you save $296	week
10	$1,280	$984	you save $296	week
11	$1,408	$1,112	you save $296	week
12	$1,536	$1,200	you save $336	week
13	$1,664	$1,200	you save $464	week
14	$1,792	$1,200	you save $592	week
15	$1,920	$1,328	you save $592	week
16	$2,048	$1,456	you save $592	week
17	$2,176	$1,584	you save $592	week
18	$2,304	$1,712	you save $592	week
19	$2,432	$1,800	you save $632	week
20	$2,560	$1,800	you save $760	week
21	$2,688	$1,800	you save $888	week
22	$2,816	$1,928	you save $888	week
23	$2,944	$2,056	you save $888	week
24	$3,072	$2,184	you save $888	week
25	$3,200	$2,312	you save $888	week
26	$3,328	$2,400	you save $928	28-day
27	$3,456	$2,400	you save $1,056	28-day
28	$3,584	$2,400	you save $1,184	28-day
29	$3,712	$2,528	you save $1,184	day
30	$3,840	$2,656	you save $1,184	day
31	$3,968	$2,784	you save $1,184	day
32	$4,096	$2,912	you save $1,184	day
33	$4,224	$3,000	you save $1,224	week
34	$4,352	$3,000	you save $1,352	week
35	$4,480	$3,000	you save $1,480	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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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.