When is it cheaper to rent a Barreto Mini Trencher 18" # 2 by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $155 day rate would be $775, but the weekly rate caps it at $620.

When is it cheaper to rent a Barreto Mini Trencher 18" # 2 on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,859 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.

Barreto Mini Trencher 18" # 2

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Simon Equipment Rentals · Trencher - Gasoline

Day: $155
Week: $620
28 days: $1,859

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $775. On the week rate it is $620.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $2,790. On the 28-day rate it is $1,859.

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 Barreto Mini Trencher 18" # 2, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$155	$155	—	day
2	$310	$310	—	day
3	$465	$465	—	day
4	$620	$620	—	day
5	$775	$620	you save $155	week
6	$930	$620	you save $310	week
7	$1,085	$620	you save $465	week
8	$1,240	$775	you save $465	week
9	$1,395	$930	you save $465	week
10	$1,550	$1,085	you save $465	week
11	$1,705	$1,240	you save $465	week
12	$1,860	$1,240	you save $620	week
13	$2,015	$1,240	you save $775	week
14	$2,170	$1,240	you save $930	week
15	$2,325	$1,395	you save $930	week
16	$2,480	$1,550	you save $930	week
17	$2,635	$1,705	you save $930	week
18	$2,790	$1,859	you save $931	28-day
19	$2,945	$1,859	you save $1,086	28-day
20	$3,100	$1,859	you save $1,241	28-day
21	$3,255	$1,859	you save $1,396	28-day
22	$3,410	$1,859	you save $1,551	28-day
23	$3,565	$1,859	you save $1,706	28-day
24	$3,720	$1,859	you save $1,861	28-day
25	$3,875	$1,859	you save $2,016	28-day
26	$4,030	$1,859	you save $2,171	28-day
27	$4,185	$1,859	you save $2,326	28-day
28	$4,340	$1,859	you save $2,481	28-day
29	$4,495	$2,014	you save $2,481	day
30	$4,650	$2,169	you save $2,481	day
31	$4,805	$2,324	you save $2,481	day
32	$4,960	$2,479	you save $2,481	day
33	$5,115	$2,479	you save $2,636	week
34	$5,270	$2,479	you save $2,791	week
35	$5,425	$2,479	you save $2,946	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: $1,859
Rental protection (RPP): $278.85
Service fee: $185.90
Estimated total: $2,323.75

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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.