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

From day 6. 6 days at the $175 day rate would be $1,050, but the weekly rate caps it at $875.

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

From day 26. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,500 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.

Skid Steer

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rhtractorservices · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $175
Week: $875
28 days: $3,500

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $1,050. On the week rate it is $875.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $4,550. On the 28-day rate it is $3,500.

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 Skid Steer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$175	$175	—	day
2	$350	$350	—	day
3	$525	$525	—	day
4	$700	$700	—	day
5	$875	$875	—	day
6	$1,050	$875	you save $175	week
7	$1,225	$875	you save $350	week
8	$1,400	$1,050	you save $350	week
9	$1,575	$1,225	you save $350	week
10	$1,750	$1,400	you save $350	week
11	$1,925	$1,575	you save $350	week
12	$2,100	$1,750	you save $350	week
13	$2,275	$1,750	you save $525	week
14	$2,450	$1,750	you save $700	week
15	$2,625	$1,925	you save $700	week
16	$2,800	$2,100	you save $700	week
17	$2,975	$2,275	you save $700	week
18	$3,150	$2,450	you save $700	week
19	$3,325	$2,625	you save $700	week
20	$3,500	$2,625	you save $875	week
21	$3,675	$2,625	you save $1,050	week
22	$3,850	$2,800	you save $1,050	week
23	$4,025	$2,975	you save $1,050	week
24	$4,200	$3,150	you save $1,050	week
25	$4,375	$3,325	you save $1,050	week
26	$4,550	$3,500	you save $1,050	28-day
27	$4,725	$3,500	you save $1,225	28-day
28	$4,900	$3,500	you save $1,400	28-day
29	$5,075	$3,675	you save $1,400	day
30	$5,250	$3,850	you save $1,400	day
31	$5,425	$4,025	you save $1,400	day
32	$5,600	$4,200	you save $1,400	day
33	$5,775	$4,375	you save $1,400	day
34	$5,950	$4,375	you save $1,575	week
35	$6,125	$4,375	you save $1,750	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.