When is it cheaper to rent a Compact Track Loader by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $280 day rate would be $1,120, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,117.

When is it cheaper to rent a Compact Track Loader on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,360 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.

Compact Track Loader

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Jonathan Page · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $280
Week: $1,117
28 days: $3,360

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,120. On the week rate it is $1,117.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $6,160. On the 28-day rate it is $3,360.

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 Compact Track Loader, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$280	$280	—	day
2	$560	$560	—	day
3	$840	$840	—	day
4	$1,120	$1,117	you save $3	week
5	$1,400	$1,117	you save $283	week
6	$1,680	$1,117	you save $563	week
7	$1,960	$1,117	you save $843	week
8	$2,240	$1,397	you save $843	week
9	$2,520	$1,677	you save $843	week
10	$2,800	$1,957	you save $843	week
11	$3,080	$2,234	you save $846	week
12	$3,360	$2,234	you save $1,126	week
13	$3,640	$2,234	you save $1,406	week
14	$3,920	$2,234	you save $1,686	week
15	$4,200	$2,514	you save $1,686	week
16	$4,480	$2,794	you save $1,686	week
17	$4,760	$3,074	you save $1,686	week
18	$5,040	$3,351	you save $1,689	week
19	$5,320	$3,351	you save $1,969	week
20	$5,600	$3,351	you save $2,249	week
21	$5,880	$3,351	you save $2,529	week
22	$6,160	$3,360	you save $2,800	28-day
23	$6,440	$3,360	you save $3,080	28-day
24	$6,720	$3,360	you save $3,360	28-day
25	$7,000	$3,360	you save $3,640	28-day
26	$7,280	$3,360	you save $3,920	28-day
27	$7,560	$3,360	you save $4,200	28-day
28	$7,840	$3,360	you save $4,480	28-day
29	$8,120	$3,640	you save $4,480	day
30	$8,400	$3,920	you save $4,480	day
31	$8,680	$4,200	you save $4,480	day
32	$8,960	$4,477	you save $4,483	week
33	$9,240	$4,477	you save $4,763	week
34	$9,520	$4,477	you save $5,043	week
35	$9,800	$4,477	you save $5,323	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 · 22 days: $3,360
Rental protection (RPP): $504
Service fee: $336
Estimated total: $4,200

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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.