When is it cheaper to rent a Compact Skid Steer Loader by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $204 day rate would be $1,020, but the weekly rate caps it at $935.

When is it cheaper to rent a Compact Skid Steer Loader on the 28-day rate?

From day 19. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,805 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.

Compact Skid Steer Loader

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Alex Trujillo · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $204
Week: $935
28 days: $2,805

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $1,020. On the week rate it is $935.

Weekly stops winning on

day 19

19 days at the day rate would be $3,876. On the 28-day rate it is $2,805.

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 Compact Skid Steer Loader, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$204	$204	—	day
2	$408	$408	—	day
3	$612	$612	—	day
4	$816	$816	—	day
5	$1,020	$935	you save $85	week
6	$1,224	$935	you save $289	week
7	$1,428	$935	you save $493	week
8	$1,632	$1,139	you save $493	week
9	$1,836	$1,343	you save $493	week
10	$2,040	$1,547	you save $493	week
11	$2,244	$1,751	you save $493	week
12	$2,448	$1,870	you save $578	week
13	$2,652	$1,870	you save $782	week
14	$2,856	$1,870	you save $986	week
15	$3,060	$2,074	you save $986	week
16	$3,264	$2,278	you save $986	week
17	$3,468	$2,482	you save $986	week
18	$3,672	$2,686	you save $986	week
19	$3,876	$2,805	you save $1,071	28-day
20	$4,080	$2,805	you save $1,275	28-day
21	$4,284	$2,805	you save $1,479	28-day
22	$4,488	$2,805	you save $1,683	28-day
23	$4,692	$2,805	you save $1,887	28-day
24	$4,896	$2,805	you save $2,091	28-day
25	$5,100	$2,805	you save $2,295	28-day
26	$5,304	$2,805	you save $2,499	28-day
27	$5,508	$2,805	you save $2,703	28-day
28	$5,712	$2,805	you save $2,907	28-day
29	$5,916	$3,009	you save $2,907	day
30	$6,120	$3,213	you save $2,907	day
31	$6,324	$3,417	you save $2,907	day
32	$6,528	$3,621	you save $2,907	day
33	$6,732	$3,740	you save $2,992	week
34	$6,936	$3,740	you save $3,196	week
35	$7,140	$3,740	you save $3,400	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.