When is it cheaper to rent a 6x12 Dump Trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $120 day rate would be $360, but the weekly rate caps it at $300.

When is it cheaper to rent a 6x12 Dump Trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,000 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.

6x12 Dump Trailer

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Raul Taboada · Dump Trailer

Day: $120
Week: $300
28 days: $1,000

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $360. On the week rate it is $300.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $2,640. On the 28-day rate it is $1,000.

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 6x12 Dump Trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$120	$120	—	day
2	$240	$240	—	day
3	$360	$300	you save $60	week
4	$480	$300	you save $180	week
5	$600	$300	you save $300	week
6	$720	$300	you save $420	week
7	$840	$300	you save $540	week
8	$960	$420	you save $540	week
9	$1,080	$540	you save $540	week
10	$1,200	$600	you save $600	week
11	$1,320	$600	you save $720	week
12	$1,440	$600	you save $840	week
13	$1,560	$600	you save $960	week
14	$1,680	$600	you save $1,080	week
15	$1,800	$720	you save $1,080	week
16	$1,920	$840	you save $1,080	week
17	$2,040	$900	you save $1,140	week
18	$2,160	$900	you save $1,260	week
19	$2,280	$900	you save $1,380	week
20	$2,400	$900	you save $1,500	week
21	$2,520	$900	you save $1,620	week
22	$2,640	$1,000	you save $1,640	28-day
23	$2,760	$1,000	you save $1,760	28-day
24	$2,880	$1,000	you save $1,880	28-day
25	$3,000	$1,000	you save $2,000	28-day
26	$3,120	$1,000	you save $2,120	28-day
27	$3,240	$1,000	you save $2,240	28-day
28	$3,360	$1,000	you save $2,360	28-day
29	$3,480	$1,120	you save $2,360	day
30	$3,600	$1,240	you save $2,360	day
31	$3,720	$1,300	you save $2,420	week
32	$3,840	$1,300	you save $2,540	week
33	$3,960	$1,300	you save $2,660	week
34	$4,080	$1,300	you save $2,780	week
35	$4,200	$1,300	you save $2,900	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.