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

From day 4. 4 days at the $190 day rate would be $760, but the weekly rate caps it at $600.

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

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,900 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.

Hydrolic Dump Trailer

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Ryan Nichols · Dump Trailer

Day: $190
Week: $600
28 days: $1,900

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $760. On the week rate it is $600.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $4,180. On the 28-day rate it is $1,900.

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 Hydrolic Dump Trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$190	$190	—	day
2	$380	$380	—	day
3	$570	$570	—	day
4	$760	$600	you save $160	week
5	$950	$600	you save $350	week
6	$1,140	$600	you save $540	week
7	$1,330	$600	you save $730	week
8	$1,520	$790	you save $730	week
9	$1,710	$980	you save $730	week
10	$1,900	$1,170	you save $730	week
11	$2,090	$1,200	you save $890	week
12	$2,280	$1,200	you save $1,080	week
13	$2,470	$1,200	you save $1,270	week
14	$2,660	$1,200	you save $1,460	week
15	$2,850	$1,390	you save $1,460	week
16	$3,040	$1,580	you save $1,460	week
17	$3,230	$1,770	you save $1,460	week
18	$3,420	$1,800	you save $1,620	week
19	$3,610	$1,800	you save $1,810	week
20	$3,800	$1,800	you save $2,000	week
21	$3,990	$1,800	you save $2,190	week
22	$4,180	$1,900	you save $2,280	28-day
23	$4,370	$1,900	you save $2,470	28-day
24	$4,560	$1,900	you save $2,660	28-day
25	$4,750	$1,900	you save $2,850	28-day
26	$4,940	$1,900	you save $3,040	28-day
27	$5,130	$1,900	you save $3,230	28-day
28	$5,320	$1,900	you save $3,420	28-day
29	$5,510	$2,090	you save $3,420	day
30	$5,700	$2,280	you save $3,420	day
31	$5,890	$2,470	you save $3,420	day
32	$6,080	$2,500	you save $3,580	week
33	$6,270	$2,500	you save $3,770	week
34	$6,460	$2,500	you save $3,960	week
35	$6,650	$2,500	you save $4,150	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.