When is it cheaper to rent a dump trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $200 day rate would be $800, but the weekly rate caps it at $750.

When is it cheaper to rent a dump trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,300 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.

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zakery gannigan · Dump Trailer

Day: $200
Week: $750
28 days: $2,300

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $800. On the week rate it is $750.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $4,400. On the 28-day rate it is $2,300.

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 dump trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$200	$200	—	day
2	$400	$400	—	day
3	$600	$600	—	day
4	$800	$750	you save $50	week
5	$1,000	$750	you save $250	week
6	$1,200	$750	you save $450	week
7	$1,400	$750	you save $650	week
8	$1,600	$950	you save $650	week
9	$1,800	$1,150	you save $650	week
10	$2,000	$1,350	you save $650	week
11	$2,200	$1,500	you save $700	week
12	$2,400	$1,500	you save $900	week
13	$2,600	$1,500	you save $1,100	week
14	$2,800	$1,500	you save $1,300	week
15	$3,000	$1,700	you save $1,300	week
16	$3,200	$1,900	you save $1,300	week
17	$3,400	$2,100	you save $1,300	week
18	$3,600	$2,250	you save $1,350	week
19	$3,800	$2,250	you save $1,550	week
20	$4,000	$2,250	you save $1,750	week
21	$4,200	$2,250	you save $1,950	week
22	$4,400	$2,300	you save $2,100	28-day
23	$4,600	$2,300	you save $2,300	28-day
24	$4,800	$2,300	you save $2,500	28-day
25	$5,000	$2,300	you save $2,700	28-day
26	$5,200	$2,300	you save $2,900	28-day
27	$5,400	$2,300	you save $3,100	28-day
28	$5,600	$2,300	you save $3,300	28-day
29	$5,800	$2,500	you save $3,300	day
30	$6,000	$2,700	you save $3,300	day
31	$6,200	$2,900	you save $3,300	day
32	$6,400	$3,050	you save $3,350	week
33	$6,600	$3,050	you save $3,550	week
34	$6,800	$3,050	you save $3,750	week
35	$7,000	$3,050	you save $3,950	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 · 22 days: $2,300
Rental protection (RPP): $345
Service fee: $230
Estimated total: $2,875

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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.