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.

Big Tex 7x14 Nomad Series dump trailer

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Esthefany Kouba · Dump Trailer

Day
$125
Week
$700
28 days
$2,625

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $750. On the week rate it is $700.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $3,250. On the 28-day rate it is $2,625.

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 Big Tex 7x14 Nomad Series dump trailer, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$125$125—day
2$250$250—day
3$375$375—day
4$500$500—day
5$625$625—day
6$750$700you save $50week
7$875$700you save $175week
8$1,000$825you save $175week
9$1,125$950you save $175week
10$1,250$1,075you save $175week
11$1,375$1,200you save $175week
12$1,500$1,325you save $175week
13$1,625$1,400you save $225week
14$1,750$1,400you save $350week
15$1,875$1,525you save $350week
16$2,000$1,650you save $350week
17$2,125$1,775you save $350week
18$2,250$1,900you save $350week
19$2,375$2,025you save $350week
20$2,500$2,100you save $400week
21$2,625$2,100you save $525week
22$2,750$2,225you save $525week
23$2,875$2,350you save $525week
24$3,000$2,475you save $525week
25$3,125$2,600you save $525week
26$3,250$2,625you save $62528-day
27$3,375$2,625you save $75028-day
28$3,500$2,625you save $87528-day
29$3,625$2,750you save $875day
30$3,750$2,875you save $875day
31$3,875$3,000you save $875day
32$4,000$3,125you save $875day
33$4,125$3,250you save $875day
34$4,250$3,325you save $925week
35$4,375$3,325you save $1,050week

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

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 26 days
$2,625
Rental protection (RPP)
$393.75
Service fee
$262.50
Estimated total
$3,281.25

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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.