When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat MT85 Mini Skid Steer Loader by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $170 day rate would be $1,020, but the weekly rate caps it at $850.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat MT85 Mini Skid Steer Loader on the 28-day rate?

From day 17. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,100 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 MT85 Mini Skid Steer Loader

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Valentin Roman · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $170
Week: $850
28 days: $2,100

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $1,020. On the week rate it is $850.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $2,890. On the 28-day rate it is $2,100.

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 MT85 Mini Skid Steer Loader, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$170	$170	—	day
2	$340	$340	—	day
3	$510	$510	—	day
4	$680	$680	—	day
5	$850	$850	—	day
6	$1,020	$850	you save $170	week
7	$1,190	$850	you save $340	week
8	$1,360	$1,020	you save $340	week
9	$1,530	$1,190	you save $340	week
10	$1,700	$1,360	you save $340	week
11	$1,870	$1,530	you save $340	week
12	$2,040	$1,700	you save $340	week
13	$2,210	$1,700	you save $510	week
14	$2,380	$1,700	you save $680	week
15	$2,550	$1,870	you save $680	week
16	$2,720	$2,040	you save $680	week
17	$2,890	$2,100	you save $790	28-day
18	$3,060	$2,100	you save $960	28-day
19	$3,230	$2,100	you save $1,130	28-day
20	$3,400	$2,100	you save $1,300	28-day
21	$3,570	$2,100	you save $1,470	28-day
22	$3,740	$2,100	you save $1,640	28-day
23	$3,910	$2,100	you save $1,810	28-day
24	$4,080	$2,100	you save $1,980	28-day
25	$4,250	$2,100	you save $2,150	28-day
26	$4,420	$2,100	you save $2,320	28-day
27	$4,590	$2,100	you save $2,490	28-day
28	$4,760	$2,100	you save $2,660	28-day
29	$4,930	$2,270	you save $2,660	day
30	$5,100	$2,440	you save $2,660	day
31	$5,270	$2,610	you save $2,660	day
32	$5,440	$2,780	you save $2,660	day
33	$5,610	$2,950	you save $2,660	day
34	$5,780	$2,950	you save $2,830	week
35	$5,950	$2,950	you save $3,000	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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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.