When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat T740 Skid Steer Loader by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $297.50 day rate would be $1,487.50, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,275.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat T740 Skid Steer Loader on the 28-day rate?

From day 19. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,825 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 T740 Skid Steer Loader

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Western Premier Construction · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $297.50
Week: $1,275
28 days: $3,825

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $1,487.50. On the week rate it is $1,275.

Weekly stops winning on

day 19

19 days at the day rate would be $5,652.50. On the 28-day rate it is $3,825.

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 T740 Skid Steer Loader, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$297.50	$297.50	—	day
2	$595	$595	—	day
3	$892.50	$892.50	—	day
4	$1,190	$1,190	—	day
5	$1,487.50	$1,275	you save $212.50	week
6	$1,785	$1,275	you save $510	week
7	$2,082.50	$1,275	you save $807.50	week
8	$2,380	$1,572.50	you save $807.50	week
9	$2,677.50	$1,870	you save $807.50	week
10	$2,975	$2,167.50	you save $807.50	week
11	$3,272.50	$2,465	you save $807.50	week
12	$3,570	$2,550	you save $1,020	week
13	$3,867.50	$2,550	you save $1,317.50	week
14	$4,165	$2,550	you save $1,615	week
15	$4,462.50	$2,847.50	you save $1,615	week
16	$4,760	$3,145	you save $1,615	week
17	$5,057.50	$3,442.50	you save $1,615	week
18	$5,355	$3,740	you save $1,615	week
19	$5,652.50	$3,825	you save $1,827.50	28-day
20	$5,950	$3,825	you save $2,125	28-day
21	$6,247.50	$3,825	you save $2,422.50	28-day
22	$6,545	$3,825	you save $2,720	28-day
23	$6,842.50	$3,825	you save $3,017.50	28-day
24	$7,140	$3,825	you save $3,315	28-day
25	$7,437.50	$3,825	you save $3,612.50	28-day
26	$7,735	$3,825	you save $3,910	28-day
27	$8,032.50	$3,825	you save $4,207.50	28-day
28	$8,330	$3,825	you save $4,505	28-day
29	$8,627.50	$4,122.50	you save $4,505	day
30	$8,925	$4,420	you save $4,505	day
31	$9,222.50	$4,717.50	you save $4,505	day
32	$9,520	$5,015	you save $4,505	day
33	$9,817.50	$5,100	you save $4,717.50	week
34	$10,115	$5,100	you save $5,015	week
35	$10,412.50	$5,100	you save $5,312.50	week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Our pricing service couldn’t be reached just now, so there’s no checkout figure to show. The rate table above is unaffected — it’s the operator’s published card.

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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.