Break-even duration

Q: When is it cheaper to rent a Allmand Maxi-lite II V Series Hydraulic Mast LED Light Tower by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $99 day rate would be $495, but the weekly rate caps it at $450.

Q: When is it cheaper to rent a Allmand Maxi-lite II V Series Hydraulic Mast LED Light Tower on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,485 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

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.

Allmand Maxi-lite II V Series Hydraulic Mast LED Light Tower

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Michael Hall · Lighting - Light Towers

Day: $99
Week: $450
28 days: $1,485

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $495. On the week rate it is $450.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $2,277. On the 28-day rate it is $1,485.

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 Allmand Maxi-lite II V Series Hydraulic Mast LED Light Tower, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$99	$99	—	day
2	$198	$198	—	day
3	$297	$297	—	day
4	$396	$396	—	day
5	$495	$450	you save $45	week
6	$594	$450	you save $144	week
7	$693	$450	you save $243	week
8	$792	$549	you save $243	week
9	$891	$648	you save $243	week
10	$990	$747	you save $243	week
11	$1,089	$846	you save $243	week
12	$1,188	$900	you save $288	week
13	$1,287	$900	you save $387	week
14	$1,386	$900	you save $486	week
15	$1,485	$999	you save $486	week
16	$1,584	$1,098	you save $486	week
17	$1,683	$1,197	you save $486	week
18	$1,782	$1,296	you save $486	week
19	$1,881	$1,350	you save $531	week
20	$1,980	$1,350	you save $630	week
21	$2,079	$1,350	you save $729	week
22	$2,178	$1,449	you save $729	week
23	$2,277	$1,485	you save $792	28-day
24	$2,376	$1,485	you save $891	28-day
25	$2,475	$1,485	you save $990	28-day
26	$2,574	$1,485	you save $1,089	28-day
27	$2,673	$1,485	you save $1,188	28-day
28	$2,772	$1,485	you save $1,287	28-day
29	$2,871	$1,584	you save $1,287	day
30	$2,970	$1,683	you save $1,287	day
31	$3,069	$1,782	you save $1,287	day
32	$3,168	$1,881	you save $1,287	day
33	$3,267	$1,935	you save $1,332	week
34	$3,366	$1,935	you save $1,431	week
35	$3,465	$1,935	you save $1,530	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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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.