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

From day 21. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,200 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.

Utility Trailer

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Kevin Finch · Flatbed

Day: $50
Week: $400
28 days: $1,200

Daily stops winning on

Never, on this card

Seven days at the day rate still cost less than the week rate on this card.

Weekly stops winning on

day 21

21 days at the day rate would be $1,050. On the 28-day rate it is $1,200.

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