When is it cheaper to rent a 2021 5x8 Utility Trailer With Gate by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $80 day rate would be $560, but the weekly rate caps it at $500.

When is it cheaper to rent a 2021 5x8 Utility Trailer With Gate on the 28-day rate?

From day 19. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,400 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.

2021 5x8 Utility Trailer With Gate

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Katey Ransome · Flatbed

Day: $80
Week: $500
28 days: $1,400

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $560. On the week rate it is $500.

Weekly stops winning on

day 19

19 days at the day rate would be $1,520. On the 28-day rate it is $1,400.

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 2021 5x8 Utility Trailer With Gate, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$80	$80	—	day
2	$160	$160	—	day
3	$240	$240	—	day
4	$320	$320	—	day
5	$400	$400	—	day
6	$480	$480	—	day
7	$560	$500	you save $60	week
8	$640	$580	you save $60	week
9	$720	$660	you save $60	week
10	$800	$740	you save $60	week
11	$880	$820	you save $60	week
12	$960	$900	you save $60	week
13	$1,040	$980	you save $60	week
14	$1,120	$1,000	you save $120	week
15	$1,200	$1,080	you save $120	week
16	$1,280	$1,160	you save $120	week
17	$1,360	$1,240	you save $120	week
18	$1,440	$1,320	you save $120	week
19	$1,520	$1,400	you save $120	28-day
20	$1,600	$1,400	you save $200	28-day
21	$1,680	$1,400	you save $280	28-day
22	$1,760	$1,400	you save $360	28-day
23	$1,840	$1,400	you save $440	28-day
24	$1,920	$1,400	you save $520	28-day
25	$2,000	$1,400	you save $600	28-day
26	$2,080	$1,400	you save $680	28-day
27	$2,160	$1,400	you save $760	28-day
28	$2,240	$1,400	you save $840	28-day
29	$2,320	$1,480	you save $840	day
30	$2,400	$1,560	you save $840	day
31	$2,480	$1,640	you save $840	day
32	$2,560	$1,720	you save $840	day
33	$2,640	$1,800	you save $840	day
34	$2,720	$1,880	you save $840	day
35	$2,800	$1,900	you save $900	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 · 19 days: $1,400
Rental protection (RPP): $210
Service fee: $140
Estimated total: $1,750

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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.