When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat with tracks by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $300 day rate would be $1,500, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,360.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat with tracks on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,250 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.

Bobcat with tracks

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Jose Ortega · Loaders - Compact Track

Day: $300
Week: $1,360
28 days: $4,250

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $1,500. On the week rate it is $1,360.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $6,600. On the 28-day rate it is $4,250.

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 Bobcat with tracks, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$300	$300	—	day
2	$600	$600	—	day
3	$900	$900	—	day
4	$1,200	$1,200	—	day
5	$1,500	$1,360	you save $140	week
6	$1,800	$1,360	you save $440	week
7	$2,100	$1,360	you save $740	week
8	$2,400	$1,660	you save $740	week
9	$2,700	$1,960	you save $740	week
10	$3,000	$2,260	you save $740	week
11	$3,300	$2,560	you save $740	week
12	$3,600	$2,720	you save $880	week
13	$3,900	$2,720	you save $1,180	week
14	$4,200	$2,720	you save $1,480	week
15	$4,500	$3,020	you save $1,480	week
16	$4,800	$3,320	you save $1,480	week
17	$5,100	$3,620	you save $1,480	week
18	$5,400	$3,920	you save $1,480	week
19	$5,700	$4,080	you save $1,620	week
20	$6,000	$4,080	you save $1,920	week
21	$6,300	$4,080	you save $2,220	week
22	$6,600	$4,250	you save $2,350	28-day
23	$6,900	$4,250	you save $2,650	28-day
24	$7,200	$4,250	you save $2,950	28-day
25	$7,500	$4,250	you save $3,250	28-day
26	$7,800	$4,250	you save $3,550	28-day
27	$8,100	$4,250	you save $3,850	28-day
28	$8,400	$4,250	you save $4,150	28-day
29	$8,700	$4,550	you save $4,150	day
30	$9,000	$4,850	you save $4,150	day
31	$9,300	$5,150	you save $4,150	day
32	$9,600	$5,450	you save $4,150	day
33	$9,900	$5,610	you save $4,290	week
34	$10,200	$5,610	you save $4,590	week
35	$10,500	$5,610	you save $4,890	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: $4,250
Rental protection (RPP): $637.50
Service fee: $425
Estimated total: $5,312.50

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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.