When is it cheaper to rent a Tractor & Dump Trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $395 day rate would be $1,975, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,580.

When is it cheaper to rent a Tractor & Dump Trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 16. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,568 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.

Tractor & Dump Trailer

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lisa Jacobson · Dump Trailer

Day: $395
Week: $1,580
28 days: $3,568

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $1,975. On the week rate it is $1,580.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $6,320. On the 28-day rate it is $3,568.

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 Tractor & Dump Trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$395	$395	—	day
2	$790	$790	—	day
3	$1,185	$1,185	—	day
4	$1,580	$1,580	—	day
5	$1,975	$1,580	you save $395	week
6	$2,370	$1,580	you save $790	week
7	$2,765	$1,580	you save $1,185	week
8	$3,160	$1,975	you save $1,185	week
9	$3,555	$2,370	you save $1,185	week
10	$3,950	$2,765	you save $1,185	week
11	$4,345	$3,160	you save $1,185	week
12	$4,740	$3,160	you save $1,580	week
13	$5,135	$3,160	you save $1,975	week
14	$5,530	$3,160	you save $2,370	week
15	$5,925	$3,555	you save $2,370	week
16	$6,320	$3,568	you save $2,752	28-day
17	$6,715	$3,568	you save $3,147	28-day
18	$7,110	$3,568	you save $3,542	28-day
19	$7,505	$3,568	you save $3,937	28-day
20	$7,900	$3,568	you save $4,332	28-day
21	$8,295	$3,568	you save $4,727	28-day
22	$8,690	$3,568	you save $5,122	28-day
23	$9,085	$3,568	you save $5,517	28-day
24	$9,480	$3,568	you save $5,912	28-day
25	$9,875	$3,568	you save $6,307	28-day
26	$10,270	$3,568	you save $6,702	28-day
27	$10,665	$3,568	you save $7,097	28-day
28	$11,060	$3,568	you save $7,492	28-day
29	$11,455	$3,963	you save $7,492	day
30	$11,850	$4,358	you save $7,492	day
31	$12,245	$4,753	you save $7,492	day
32	$12,640	$5,148	you save $7,492	day
33	$13,035	$5,148	you save $7,887	week
34	$13,430	$5,148	you save $8,282	week
35	$13,825	$5,148	you save $8,677	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 · 16 days: $3,568
Rental protection (RPP): $535.20
Service fee: $356.80
Estimated total: $4,460

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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.