When is it cheaper to rent a BOBCAT SKID STEER S510 by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $450 day rate would be $2,700, but the weekly rate caps it at $2,500.

When is it cheaper to rent a BOBCAT SKID STEER S510 on the 28-day rate?

From day 25. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $9,000 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 SKID STEER S510

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OCTAVIO ESCOTO · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $450
Week: $2,500
28 days: $9,000

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $2,700. On the week rate it is $2,500.

Weekly stops winning on

day 25

25 days at the day rate would be $11,250. On the 28-day rate it is $9,000.

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 SKID STEER S510, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$450	$450	—	day
2	$900	$900	—	day
3	$1,350	$1,350	—	day
4	$1,800	$1,800	—	day
5	$2,250	$2,250	—	day
6	$2,700	$2,500	you save $200	week
7	$3,150	$2,500	you save $650	week
8	$3,600	$2,950	you save $650	week
9	$4,050	$3,400	you save $650	week
10	$4,500	$3,850	you save $650	week
11	$4,950	$4,300	you save $650	week
12	$5,400	$4,750	you save $650	week
13	$5,850	$5,000	you save $850	week
14	$6,300	$5,000	you save $1,300	week
15	$6,750	$5,450	you save $1,300	week
16	$7,200	$5,900	you save $1,300	week
17	$7,650	$6,350	you save $1,300	week
18	$8,100	$6,800	you save $1,300	week
19	$8,550	$7,250	you save $1,300	week
20	$9,000	$7,500	you save $1,500	week
21	$9,450	$7,500	you save $1,950	week
22	$9,900	$7,950	you save $1,950	week
23	$10,350	$8,400	you save $1,950	week
24	$10,800	$8,850	you save $1,950	week
25	$11,250	$9,000	you save $2,250	28-day
26	$11,700	$9,000	you save $2,700	28-day
27	$12,150	$9,000	you save $3,150	28-day
28	$12,600	$9,000	you save $3,600	28-day
29	$13,050	$9,450	you save $3,600	day
30	$13,500	$9,900	you save $3,600	day
31	$13,950	$10,350	you save $3,600	day
32	$14,400	$10,800	you save $3,600	day
33	$14,850	$11,250	you save $3,600	day
34	$15,300	$11,500	you save $3,800	week
35	$15,750	$11,500	you save $4,250	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.