When is it cheaper to rent a Track Skid Steer 259D3 by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $320 day rate would be $1,280, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,100.

When is it cheaper to rent a Track Skid Steer 259D3 on the 28-day rate?

From day 11. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,200 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.

Track Skid Steer 259D3

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Adam Hannon · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $320
Week: $1,100
28 days: $2,200

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,280. On the week rate it is $1,100.

Weekly stops winning on

day 11

11 days at the day rate would be $3,520. On the 28-day rate it is $2,200.

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 Track Skid Steer 259D3, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$320	$320	—	day
2	$640	$640	—	day
3	$960	$960	—	day
4	$1,280	$1,100	you save $180	week
5	$1,600	$1,100	you save $500	week
6	$1,920	$1,100	you save $820	week
7	$2,240	$1,100	you save $1,140	week
8	$2,560	$1,420	you save $1,140	week
9	$2,880	$1,740	you save $1,140	week
10	$3,200	$2,060	you save $1,140	week
11	$3,520	$2,200	you save $1,320	28-day
12	$3,840	$2,200	you save $1,640	28-day
13	$4,160	$2,200	you save $1,960	28-day
14	$4,480	$2,200	you save $2,280	28-day
15	$4,800	$2,200	you save $2,600	28-day
16	$5,120	$2,200	you save $2,920	28-day
17	$5,440	$2,200	you save $3,240	28-day
18	$5,760	$2,200	you save $3,560	28-day
19	$6,080	$2,200	you save $3,880	28-day
20	$6,400	$2,200	you save $4,200	28-day
21	$6,720	$2,200	you save $4,520	28-day
22	$7,040	$2,200	you save $4,840	28-day
23	$7,360	$2,200	you save $5,160	28-day
24	$7,680	$2,200	you save $5,480	28-day
25	$8,000	$2,200	you save $5,800	28-day
26	$8,320	$2,200	you save $6,120	28-day
27	$8,640	$2,200	you save $6,440	28-day
28	$8,960	$2,200	you save $6,760	28-day
29	$9,280	$2,520	you save $6,760	day
30	$9,600	$2,840	you save $6,760	day
31	$9,920	$3,160	you save $6,760	day
32	$10,240	$3,300	you save $6,940	week
33	$10,560	$3,300	you save $7,260	week
34	$10,880	$3,300	you save $7,580	week
35	$11,200	$3,300	you save $7,900	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 · 11 days: $2,200
Rental protection (RPP): $330
Service fee: $220
Estimated total: $2,750

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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.