When is it cheaper to rent a Pequa 18ft 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 $295.

When is it cheaper to rent a Pequa 18ft Trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,100 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.

Pequa 18ft Trailer

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Liberty Farm · Flatbed

Day: $120
Week: $295
28 days: $1,100

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $360. On the week rate it is $295.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $2,760. On the 28-day rate it is $1,100.

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 Pequa 18ft 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	$295	you save $65	week
4	$480	$295	you save $185	week
5	$600	$295	you save $305	week
6	$720	$295	you save $425	week
7	$840	$295	you save $545	week
8	$960	$415	you save $545	week
9	$1,080	$535	you save $545	week
10	$1,200	$590	you save $610	week
11	$1,320	$590	you save $730	week
12	$1,440	$590	you save $850	week
13	$1,560	$590	you save $970	week
14	$1,680	$590	you save $1,090	week
15	$1,800	$710	you save $1,090	week
16	$1,920	$830	you save $1,090	week
17	$2,040	$885	you save $1,155	week
18	$2,160	$885	you save $1,275	week
19	$2,280	$885	you save $1,395	week
20	$2,400	$885	you save $1,515	week
21	$2,520	$885	you save $1,635	week
22	$2,640	$1,005	you save $1,635	week
23	$2,760	$1,100	you save $1,660	28-day
24	$2,880	$1,100	you save $1,780	28-day
25	$3,000	$1,100	you save $1,900	28-day
26	$3,120	$1,100	you save $2,020	28-day
27	$3,240	$1,100	you save $2,140	28-day
28	$3,360	$1,100	you save $2,260	28-day
29	$3,480	$1,220	you save $2,260	day
30	$3,600	$1,340	you save $2,260	day
31	$3,720	$1,395	you save $2,325	week
32	$3,840	$1,395	you save $2,445	week
33	$3,960	$1,395	you save $2,565	week
34	$4,080	$1,395	you save $2,685	week
35	$4,200	$1,395	you save $2,805	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 · 23 days: $1,100
Rental protection (RPP): $165
Service fee: $110
Estimated total: $1,375

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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.