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.

Utility Trailer

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J. Howard · Flatbed

Day
$80
Week
$282
28 days
$565

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $320. On the week rate it is $282.

Weekly stops winning on

day 15

15 days at the day rate would be $1,200. On the 28-day rate it is $565.

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 Utility Trailer, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$80$80—day
2$160$160—day
3$240$240—day
4$320$282you save $38week
5$400$282you save $118week
6$480$282you save $198week
7$560$282you save $278week
8$640$362you save $278week
9$720$442you save $278week
10$800$522you save $278week
11$880$564you save $316week
12$960$564you save $396week
13$1,040$564you save $476week
14$1,120$564you save $556week
15$1,200$565you save $63528-day
16$1,280$565you save $71528-day
17$1,360$565you save $79528-day
18$1,440$565you save $87528-day
19$1,520$565you save $95528-day
20$1,600$565you save $1,03528-day
21$1,680$565you save $1,11528-day
22$1,760$565you save $1,19528-day
23$1,840$565you save $1,27528-day
24$1,920$565you save $1,35528-day
25$2,000$565you save $1,43528-day
26$2,080$565you save $1,51528-day
27$2,160$565you save $1,59528-day
28$2,240$565you save $1,67528-day
29$2,320$645you save $1,675day
30$2,400$725you save $1,675day
31$2,480$805you save $1,675day
32$2,560$847you save $1,713week
33$2,640$847you save $1,793week
34$2,720$847you save $1,873week
35$2,800$847you save $1,953week

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.