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.

trailer

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Adam Huerta

Day
$90
Week
$200
28 days
$740

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $270. On the week rate it is $200.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $2,070. On the 28-day rate it is $740.

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 trailer, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$90$90—day
2$180$180—day
3$270$200you save $70week
4$360$200you save $160week
5$450$200you save $250week
6$540$200you save $340week
7$630$200you save $430week
8$720$290you save $430week
9$810$380you save $430week
10$900$400you save $500week
11$990$400you save $590week
12$1,080$400you save $680week
13$1,170$400you save $770week
14$1,260$400you save $860week
15$1,350$490you save $860week
16$1,440$580you save $860week
17$1,530$600you save $930week
18$1,620$600you save $1,020week
19$1,710$600you save $1,110week
20$1,800$600you save $1,200week
21$1,890$600you save $1,290week
22$1,980$690you save $1,290week
23$2,070$740you save $1,33028-day
24$2,160$740you save $1,42028-day
25$2,250$740you save $1,51028-day
26$2,340$740you save $1,60028-day
27$2,430$740you save $1,69028-day
28$2,520$740you save $1,78028-day
29$2,610$830you save $1,780day
30$2,700$920you save $1,780day
31$2,790$940you save $1,850week
32$2,880$940you save $1,940week
33$2,970$940you save $2,030week
34$3,060$940you save $2,120week
35$3,150$940you save $2,210week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 23 days
$740
Rental protection (RPP)
$111
Service fee
$74
Estimated total
$925

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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.