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

From day 6. 6 days at the $350 day rate would be $2,100, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,750.

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 $7,000 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.

Skid Steer

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Ross Haveman · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $350
Week: $1,750
28 days: $7,000

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $2,100. On the week rate it is $1,750.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $9,100. On the 28-day rate it is $7,000.

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 Skid Steer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$350	$350	—	day
2	$700	$700	—	day
3	$1,050	$1,050	—	day
4	$1,400	$1,400	—	day
5	$1,750	$1,750	—	day
6	$2,100	$1,750	you save $350	week
7	$2,450	$1,750	you save $700	week
8	$2,800	$2,100	you save $700	week
9	$3,150	$2,450	you save $700	week
10	$3,500	$2,800	you save $700	week
11	$3,850	$3,150	you save $700	week
12	$4,200	$3,500	you save $700	week
13	$4,550	$3,500	you save $1,050	week
14	$4,900	$3,500	you save $1,400	week
15	$5,250	$3,850	you save $1,400	week
16	$5,600	$4,200	you save $1,400	week
17	$5,950	$4,550	you save $1,400	week
18	$6,300	$4,900	you save $1,400	week
19	$6,650	$5,250	you save $1,400	week
20	$7,000	$5,250	you save $1,750	week
21	$7,350	$5,250	you save $2,100	week
22	$7,700	$5,600	you save $2,100	week
23	$8,050	$5,950	you save $2,100	week
24	$8,400	$6,300	you save $2,100	week
25	$8,750	$6,650	you save $2,100	week
26	$9,100	$7,000	you save $2,100	28-day
27	$9,450	$7,000	you save $2,450	28-day
28	$9,800	$7,000	you save $2,800	28-day
29	$10,150	$7,350	you save $2,800	day
30	$10,500	$7,700	you save $2,800	day
31	$10,850	$8,050	you save $2,800	day
32	$11,200	$8,400	you save $2,800	day
33	$11,550	$8,750	you save $2,800	day
34	$11,900	$8,750	you save $3,150	week
35	$12,250	$8,750	you save $3,500	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 · 26 days: $7,000
Rental protection (RPP): $1,050
Service fee: $700
Estimated total: $8,750

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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.