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

From day 5. 5 days at the $135 day rate would be $675, but the weekly rate caps it at $600.

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

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,000 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.

Dump Trailer

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Raymond Benavidez · Dump Trailer

Day: $135
Week: $600
28 days: $2,000

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $675. On the week rate it is $600.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $3,105. On the 28-day rate it is $2,000.

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 Dump Trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$135	$135	—	day
2	$270	$270	—	day
3	$405	$405	—	day
4	$540	$540	—	day
5	$675	$600	you save $75	week
6	$810	$600	you save $210	week
7	$945	$600	you save $345	week
8	$1,080	$735	you save $345	week
9	$1,215	$870	you save $345	week
10	$1,350	$1,005	you save $345	week
11	$1,485	$1,140	you save $345	week
12	$1,620	$1,200	you save $420	week
13	$1,755	$1,200	you save $555	week
14	$1,890	$1,200	you save $690	week
15	$2,025	$1,335	you save $690	week
16	$2,160	$1,470	you save $690	week
17	$2,295	$1,605	you save $690	week
18	$2,430	$1,740	you save $690	week
19	$2,565	$1,800	you save $765	week
20	$2,700	$1,800	you save $900	week
21	$2,835	$1,800	you save $1,035	week
22	$2,970	$1,935	you save $1,035	week
23	$3,105	$2,000	you save $1,105	28-day
24	$3,240	$2,000	you save $1,240	28-day
25	$3,375	$2,000	you save $1,375	28-day
26	$3,510	$2,000	you save $1,510	28-day
27	$3,645	$2,000	you save $1,645	28-day
28	$3,780	$2,000	you save $1,780	28-day
29	$3,915	$2,135	you save $1,780	day
30	$4,050	$2,270	you save $1,780	day
31	$4,185	$2,405	you save $1,780	day
32	$4,320	$2,540	you save $1,780	day
33	$4,455	$2,600	you save $1,855	week
34	$4,590	$2,600	you save $1,990	week
35	$4,725	$2,600	you save $2,125	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.