When is it cheaper to rent a Caterpillar 349FL by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $1,900 day rate would be $5,700, but the weekly rate caps it at $4,500.

When is it cheaper to rent a Caterpillar 349FL on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $14,500 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.

Caterpillar 349FL

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EMADOL Industries · Excavators - Crawler

Day: $1,900
Week: $4,500
28 days: $14,500

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $5,700. On the week rate it is $4,500.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $41,800. On the 28-day rate it is $14,500.

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 Caterpillar 349FL, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$1,900	$1,900	—	day
2	$3,800	$3,800	—	day
3	$5,700	$4,500	you save $1,200	week
4	$7,600	$4,500	you save $3,100	week
5	$9,500	$4,500	you save $5,000	week
6	$11,400	$4,500	you save $6,900	week
7	$13,300	$4,500	you save $8,800	week
8	$15,200	$6,400	you save $8,800	week
9	$17,100	$8,300	you save $8,800	week
10	$19,000	$9,000	you save $10,000	week
11	$20,900	$9,000	you save $11,900	week
12	$22,800	$9,000	you save $13,800	week
13	$24,700	$9,000	you save $15,700	week
14	$26,600	$9,000	you save $17,600	week
15	$28,500	$10,900	you save $17,600	week
16	$30,400	$12,800	you save $17,600	week
17	$32,300	$13,500	you save $18,800	week
18	$34,200	$13,500	you save $20,700	week
19	$36,100	$13,500	you save $22,600	week
20	$38,000	$13,500	you save $24,500	week
21	$39,900	$13,500	you save $26,400	week
22	$41,800	$14,500	you save $27,300	28-day
23	$43,700	$14,500	you save $29,200	28-day
24	$45,600	$14,500	you save $31,100	28-day
25	$47,500	$14,500	you save $33,000	28-day
26	$49,400	$14,500	you save $34,900	28-day
27	$51,300	$14,500	you save $36,800	28-day
28	$53,200	$14,500	you save $38,700	28-day
29	$55,100	$16,400	you save $38,700	day
30	$57,000	$18,300	you save $38,700	day
31	$58,900	$19,000	you save $39,900	week
32	$60,800	$19,000	you save $41,800	week
33	$62,700	$19,000	you save $43,700	week
34	$64,600	$19,000	you save $45,600	week
35	$66,500	$19,000	you save $47,500	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: $14,500
Rental protection (RPP): $2,175
Service fee: $1,450
Estimated total: $18,125

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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.