When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat S590 Skid Loader by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $300 day rate would be $900, but the weekly rate caps it at $880.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat S590 Skid Loader on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,000 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.

Bobcat S590 Skid Loader

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Katherine Berdell · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $300
Week: $880
28 days: $3,000

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $900. On the week rate it is $880.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $6,900. On the 28-day rate it is $3,000.

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 Bobcat S590 Skid Loader, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$300	$300	—	day
2	$600	$600	—	day
3	$900	$880	you save $20	week
4	$1,200	$880	you save $320	week
5	$1,500	$880	you save $620	week
6	$1,800	$880	you save $920	week
7	$2,100	$880	you save $1,220	week
8	$2,400	$1,180	you save $1,220	week
9	$2,700	$1,480	you save $1,220	week
10	$3,000	$1,760	you save $1,240	week
11	$3,300	$1,760	you save $1,540	week
12	$3,600	$1,760	you save $1,840	week
13	$3,900	$1,760	you save $2,140	week
14	$4,200	$1,760	you save $2,440	week
15	$4,500	$2,060	you save $2,440	week
16	$4,800	$2,360	you save $2,440	week
17	$5,100	$2,640	you save $2,460	week
18	$5,400	$2,640	you save $2,760	week
19	$5,700	$2,640	you save $3,060	week
20	$6,000	$2,640	you save $3,360	week
21	$6,300	$2,640	you save $3,660	week
22	$6,600	$2,940	you save $3,660	week
23	$6,900	$3,000	you save $3,900	28-day
24	$7,200	$3,000	you save $4,200	28-day
25	$7,500	$3,000	you save $4,500	28-day
26	$7,800	$3,000	you save $4,800	28-day
27	$8,100	$3,000	you save $5,100	28-day
28	$8,400	$3,000	you save $5,400	28-day
29	$8,700	$3,300	you save $5,400	day
30	$9,000	$3,600	you save $5,400	day
31	$9,300	$3,880	you save $5,420	week
32	$9,600	$3,880	you save $5,720	week
33	$9,900	$3,880	you save $6,020	week
34	$10,200	$3,880	you save $6,320	week
35	$10,500	$3,880	you save $6,620	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: $3,000
Rental protection (RPP): $450
Service fee: $300
Estimated total: $3,750

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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.