When is it cheaper to rent a 50ft car hauler trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $150 day rate would be $900, but the weekly rate caps it at $800.

When is it cheaper to rent a 50ft car hauler trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,700 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.

50ft car hauler trailer

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Alexander Houlton · Car Hauler

Day: $150
Week: $800
28 days: $2,700

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $900. On the week rate it is $800.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $3,450. On the 28-day rate it is $2,700.

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 50ft car hauler trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$150	$150	—	day
2	$300	$300	—	day
3	$450	$450	—	day
4	$600	$600	—	day
5	$750	$750	—	day
6	$900	$800	you save $100	week
7	$1,050	$800	you save $250	week
8	$1,200	$950	you save $250	week
9	$1,350	$1,100	you save $250	week
10	$1,500	$1,250	you save $250	week
11	$1,650	$1,400	you save $250	week
12	$1,800	$1,550	you save $250	week
13	$1,950	$1,600	you save $350	week
14	$2,100	$1,600	you save $500	week
15	$2,250	$1,750	you save $500	week
16	$2,400	$1,900	you save $500	week
17	$2,550	$2,050	you save $500	week
18	$2,700	$2,200	you save $500	week
19	$2,850	$2,350	you save $500	week
20	$3,000	$2,400	you save $600	week
21	$3,150	$2,400	you save $750	week
22	$3,300	$2,550	you save $750	week
23	$3,450	$2,700	you save $750	28-day
24	$3,600	$2,700	you save $900	28-day
25	$3,750	$2,700	you save $1,050	28-day
26	$3,900	$2,700	you save $1,200	28-day
27	$4,050	$2,700	you save $1,350	28-day
28	$4,200	$2,700	you save $1,500	28-day
29	$4,350	$2,850	you save $1,500	day
30	$4,500	$3,000	you save $1,500	day
31	$4,650	$3,150	you save $1,500	day
32	$4,800	$3,300	you save $1,500	day
33	$4,950	$3,450	you save $1,500	day
34	$5,100	$3,500	you save $1,600	week
35	$5,250	$3,500	you save $1,750	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.