When is it cheaper to rent a Dump Trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $270 day rate would be $1,350, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,300.

When is it cheaper to rent a Dump Trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 24. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,500 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.

Dump Trailer

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Jherel Wells · Dump Trailer

Day: $270
Week: $1,300
28 days: $4,500

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $1,350. On the week rate it is $1,300.

Weekly stops winning on

day 24

24 days at the day rate would be $6,480. On the 28-day rate it is $4,500.

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 Dump Trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$270	$270	—	day
2	$540	$540	—	day
3	$810	$810	—	day
4	$1,080	$1,080	—	day
5	$1,350	$1,300	you save $50	week
6	$1,620	$1,300	you save $320	week
7	$1,890	$1,300	you save $590	week
8	$2,160	$1,570	you save $590	week
9	$2,430	$1,840	you save $590	week
10	$2,700	$2,110	you save $590	week
11	$2,970	$2,380	you save $590	week
12	$3,240	$2,600	you save $640	week
13	$3,510	$2,600	you save $910	week
14	$3,780	$2,600	you save $1,180	week
15	$4,050	$2,870	you save $1,180	week
16	$4,320	$3,140	you save $1,180	week
17	$4,590	$3,410	you save $1,180	week
18	$4,860	$3,680	you save $1,180	week
19	$5,130	$3,900	you save $1,230	week
20	$5,400	$3,900	you save $1,500	week
21	$5,670	$3,900	you save $1,770	week
22	$5,940	$4,170	you save $1,770	week
23	$6,210	$4,440	you save $1,770	week
24	$6,480	$4,500	you save $1,980	28-day
25	$6,750	$4,500	you save $2,250	28-day
26	$7,020	$4,500	you save $2,520	28-day
27	$7,290	$4,500	you save $2,790	28-day
28	$7,560	$4,500	you save $3,060	28-day
29	$7,830	$4,770	you save $3,060	day
30	$8,100	$5,040	you save $3,060	day
31	$8,370	$5,310	you save $3,060	day
32	$8,640	$5,580	you save $3,060	day
33	$8,910	$5,800	you save $3,110	week
34	$9,180	$5,800	you save $3,380	week
35	$9,450	$5,800	you save $3,650	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.