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

From day 5. 5 days at the $220 day rate would be $1,100, but the weekly rate caps it at $900.

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

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,750 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.

Skid Steer Loader

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Pedro Mora · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $220
Week: $900
28 days: $2,750

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $1,100. On the week rate it is $900.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $4,840. On the 28-day rate it is $2,750.

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 Skid Steer Loader, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$220	$220	—	day
2	$440	$440	—	day
3	$660	$660	—	day
4	$880	$880	—	day
5	$1,100	$900	you save $200	week
6	$1,320	$900	you save $420	week
7	$1,540	$900	you save $640	week
8	$1,760	$1,120	you save $640	week
9	$1,980	$1,340	you save $640	week
10	$2,200	$1,560	you save $640	week
11	$2,420	$1,780	you save $640	week
12	$2,640	$1,800	you save $840	week
13	$2,860	$1,800	you save $1,060	week
14	$3,080	$1,800	you save $1,280	week
15	$3,300	$2,020	you save $1,280	week
16	$3,520	$2,240	you save $1,280	week
17	$3,740	$2,460	you save $1,280	week
18	$3,960	$2,680	you save $1,280	week
19	$4,180	$2,700	you save $1,480	week
20	$4,400	$2,700	you save $1,700	week
21	$4,620	$2,700	you save $1,920	week
22	$4,840	$2,750	you save $2,090	28-day
23	$5,060	$2,750	you save $2,310	28-day
24	$5,280	$2,750	you save $2,530	28-day
25	$5,500	$2,750	you save $2,750	28-day
26	$5,720	$2,750	you save $2,970	28-day
27	$5,940	$2,750	you save $3,190	28-day
28	$6,160	$2,750	you save $3,410	28-day
29	$6,380	$2,970	you save $3,410	day
30	$6,600	$3,190	you save $3,410	day
31	$6,820	$3,410	you save $3,410	day
32	$7,040	$3,630	you save $3,410	day
33	$7,260	$3,650	you save $3,610	week
34	$7,480	$3,650	you save $3,830	week
35	$7,700	$3,650	you save $4,050	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 · 22 days: $2,750
Rental protection (RPP): $412.50
Service fee: $275
Estimated total: $3,437.50

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The numbers come from one operator’s published rates, so the tool needs to know whose.

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.