When is it cheaper to rent a Rice Car hauler by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $120 day rate would be $720, but the weekly rate caps it at $600.

When is it cheaper to rent a Rice Car hauler on the 28-day rate?

From day 25. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,200 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.

Rice Car hauler

See the listing →

Joshua Bain · Car Hauler

Day: $120
Week: $600
28 days: $2,200

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $720. On the week rate it is $600.

Weekly stops winning on

day 25

25 days at the day rate would be $3,000. On the 28-day rate it is $2,200.

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 Rice Car hauler, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$120	$120	—	day
2	$240	$240	—	day
3	$360	$360	—	day
4	$480	$480	—	day
5	$600	$600	—	day
6	$720	$600	you save $120	week
7	$840	$600	you save $240	week
8	$960	$720	you save $240	week
9	$1,080	$840	you save $240	week
10	$1,200	$960	you save $240	week
11	$1,320	$1,080	you save $240	week
12	$1,440	$1,200	you save $240	week
13	$1,560	$1,200	you save $360	week
14	$1,680	$1,200	you save $480	week
15	$1,800	$1,320	you save $480	week
16	$1,920	$1,440	you save $480	week
17	$2,040	$1,560	you save $480	week
18	$2,160	$1,680	you save $480	week
19	$2,280	$1,800	you save $480	week
20	$2,400	$1,800	you save $600	week
21	$2,520	$1,800	you save $720	week
22	$2,640	$1,920	you save $720	week
23	$2,760	$2,040	you save $720	week
24	$2,880	$2,160	you save $720	week
25	$3,000	$2,200	you save $800	28-day
26	$3,120	$2,200	you save $920	28-day
27	$3,240	$2,200	you save $1,040	28-day
28	$3,360	$2,200	you save $1,160	28-day
29	$3,480	$2,320	you save $1,160	day
30	$3,600	$2,440	you save $1,160	day
31	$3,720	$2,560	you save $1,160	day
32	$3,840	$2,680	you save $1,160	day
33	$3,960	$2,800	you save $1,160	day
34	$4,080	$2,800	you save $1,280	week
35	$4,200	$2,800	you save $1,400	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.

Pick a listing

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.