When is it cheaper to rent a Lonestar Dump trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $110 day rate would be $550, but the weekly rate caps it at $470.

When is it cheaper to rent a Lonestar Dump trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 17. 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.

Lonestar Dump trailer

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Shaun Treloar · Dump Trailer

Day: $110
Week: $470
28 days: $1,200

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $550. On the week rate it is $470.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $1,870. 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 Lonestar Dump trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$110	$110	—	day
2	$220	$220	—	day
3	$330	$330	—	day
4	$440	$440	—	day
5	$550	$470	you save $80	week
6	$660	$470	you save $190	week
7	$770	$470	you save $300	week
8	$880	$580	you save $300	week
9	$990	$690	you save $300	week
10	$1,100	$800	you save $300	week
11	$1,210	$910	you save $300	week
12	$1,320	$940	you save $380	week
13	$1,430	$940	you save $490	week
14	$1,540	$940	you save $600	week
15	$1,650	$1,050	you save $600	week
16	$1,760	$1,160	you save $600	week
17	$1,870	$1,200	you save $670	28-day
18	$1,980	$1,200	you save $780	28-day
19	$2,090	$1,200	you save $890	28-day
20	$2,200	$1,200	you save $1,000	28-day
21	$2,310	$1,200	you save $1,110	28-day
22	$2,420	$1,200	you save $1,220	28-day
23	$2,530	$1,200	you save $1,330	28-day
24	$2,640	$1,200	you save $1,440	28-day
25	$2,750	$1,200	you save $1,550	28-day
26	$2,860	$1,200	you save $1,660	28-day
27	$2,970	$1,200	you save $1,770	28-day
28	$3,080	$1,200	you save $1,880	28-day
29	$3,190	$1,310	you save $1,880	day
30	$3,300	$1,420	you save $1,880	day
31	$3,410	$1,530	you save $1,880	day
32	$3,520	$1,640	you save $1,880	day
33	$3,630	$1,670	you save $1,960	week
34	$3,740	$1,670	you save $2,070	week
35	$3,850	$1,670	you save $2,180	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 · 17 days: $1,200
Rental protection (RPP): $180
Service fee: $120
Estimated total: $1,500

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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.