When is it cheaper to rent a skid steer by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $350 day rate would be $1,400, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,150.

When is it cheaper to rent a skid steer on the 28-day rate?

From day 17. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,100 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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Adrian Corral · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $350
Week: $1,150
28 days: $3,100

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,400. On the week rate it is $1,150.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $5,950. On the 28-day rate it is $3,100.

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	$1,150	you save $250	week
5	$1,750	$1,150	you save $600	week
6	$2,100	$1,150	you save $950	week
7	$2,450	$1,150	you save $1,300	week
8	$2,800	$1,500	you save $1,300	week
9	$3,150	$1,850	you save $1,300	week
10	$3,500	$2,200	you save $1,300	week
11	$3,850	$2,300	you save $1,550	week
12	$4,200	$2,300	you save $1,900	week
13	$4,550	$2,300	you save $2,250	week
14	$4,900	$2,300	you save $2,600	week
15	$5,250	$2,650	you save $2,600	week
16	$5,600	$3,000	you save $2,600	week
17	$5,950	$3,100	you save $2,850	28-day
18	$6,300	$3,100	you save $3,200	28-day
19	$6,650	$3,100	you save $3,550	28-day
20	$7,000	$3,100	you save $3,900	28-day
21	$7,350	$3,100	you save $4,250	28-day
22	$7,700	$3,100	you save $4,600	28-day
23	$8,050	$3,100	you save $4,950	28-day
24	$8,400	$3,100	you save $5,300	28-day
25	$8,750	$3,100	you save $5,650	28-day
26	$9,100	$3,100	you save $6,000	28-day
27	$9,450	$3,100	you save $6,350	28-day
28	$9,800	$3,100	you save $6,700	28-day
29	$10,150	$3,450	you save $6,700	day
30	$10,500	$3,800	you save $6,700	day
31	$10,850	$4,150	you save $6,700	day
32	$11,200	$4,250	you save $6,950	week
33	$11,550	$4,250	you save $7,300	week
34	$11,900	$4,250	you save $7,650	week
35	$12,250	$4,250	you save $8,000	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 · 17 days: $3,100
Rental protection (RPP): $465
Service fee: $310
Estimated total: $3,875

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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.