When is it cheaper to rent a 6ft x 10ft Utility Trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $55 day rate would be $330, but the weekly rate caps it at $315.

When is it cheaper to rent a 6ft x 10ft Utility Trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 26. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,200 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.

6ft x 10ft Utility Trailer

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Edson Batalla · Flatbed

Day: $55
Week: $315
28 days: $1,200

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $330. On the week rate it is $315.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $1,430. On the 28-day rate it is $1,200.

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 6ft x 10ft Utility Trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$55	$55	—	day
2	$110	$110	—	day
3	$165	$165	—	day
4	$220	$220	—	day
5	$275	$275	—	day
6	$330	$315	you save $15	week
7	$385	$315	you save $70	week
8	$440	$370	you save $70	week
9	$495	$425	you save $70	week
10	$550	$480	you save $70	week
11	$605	$535	you save $70	week
12	$660	$590	you save $70	week
13	$715	$630	you save $85	week
14	$770	$630	you save $140	week
15	$825	$685	you save $140	week
16	$880	$740	you save $140	week
17	$935	$795	you save $140	week
18	$990	$850	you save $140	week
19	$1,045	$905	you save $140	week
20	$1,100	$945	you save $155	week
21	$1,155	$945	you save $210	week
22	$1,210	$1,000	you save $210	week
23	$1,265	$1,055	you save $210	week
24	$1,320	$1,110	you save $210	week
25	$1,375	$1,165	you save $210	week
26	$1,430	$1,200	you save $230	28-day
27	$1,485	$1,200	you save $285	28-day
28	$1,540	$1,200	you save $340	28-day
29	$1,595	$1,255	you save $340	day
30	$1,650	$1,310	you save $340	day
31	$1,705	$1,365	you save $340	day
32	$1,760	$1,420	you save $340	day
33	$1,815	$1,475	you save $340	day
34	$1,870	$1,515	you save $355	week
35	$1,925	$1,515	you save $410	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.