When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat s70 Skid Steer Loader by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $161 day rate would be $805, but the weekly rate caps it at $644.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat s70 Skid Steer Loader on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,100 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 s70 Skid Steer Loader

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rene torres · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $161
Week: $644
28 days: $2,100

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $805. On the week rate it is $644.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $3,703. On the 28-day rate it is $2,100.

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 s70 Skid Steer Loader, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$161	$161	—	day
2	$322	$322	—	day
3	$483	$483	—	day
4	$644	$644	—	day
5	$805	$644	you save $161	week
6	$966	$644	you save $322	week
7	$1,127	$644	you save $483	week
8	$1,288	$805	you save $483	week
9	$1,449	$966	you save $483	week
10	$1,610	$1,127	you save $483	week
11	$1,771	$1,288	you save $483	week
12	$1,932	$1,288	you save $644	week
13	$2,093	$1,288	you save $805	week
14	$2,254	$1,288	you save $966	week
15	$2,415	$1,449	you save $966	week
16	$2,576	$1,610	you save $966	week
17	$2,737	$1,771	you save $966	week
18	$2,898	$1,932	you save $966	week
19	$3,059	$1,932	you save $1,127	week
20	$3,220	$1,932	you save $1,288	week
21	$3,381	$1,932	you save $1,449	week
22	$3,542	$2,093	you save $1,449	week
23	$3,703	$2,100	you save $1,603	28-day
24	$3,864	$2,100	you save $1,764	28-day
25	$4,025	$2,100	you save $1,925	28-day
26	$4,186	$2,100	you save $2,086	28-day
27	$4,347	$2,100	you save $2,247	28-day
28	$4,508	$2,100	you save $2,408	28-day
29	$4,669	$2,261	you save $2,408	day
30	$4,830	$2,422	you save $2,408	day
31	$4,991	$2,583	you save $2,408	day
32	$5,152	$2,744	you save $2,408	day
33	$5,313	$2,744	you save $2,569	week
34	$5,474	$2,744	you save $2,730	week
35	$5,635	$2,744	you save $2,891	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 · 23 days: $2,100
Rental protection (RPP): $315
Service fee: $210
Estimated total: $2,625

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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.