When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat Skid Steer by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $320 day rate would be $1,920, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,600.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat Skid Steer on the 28-day rate?

From day 26. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $6,400 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

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Omar Pena · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $320
Week: $1,600
28 days: $6,400

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $1,920. On the week rate it is $1,600.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $8,320. On the 28-day rate it is $6,400.

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