When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat t870 by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $500 day rate would be $1,500, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,300.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat t870 on the 28-day rate?

From day 15. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,695 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 t870

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Logan Nathey · Tow Tractor

Day: $500
Week: $1,300
28 days: $2,695

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $1,500. On the week rate it is $1,300.

Weekly stops winning on

day 15

15 days at the day rate would be $7,500. On the 28-day rate it is $2,695.

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 t870, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$500	$500	—	day
2	$1,000	$1,000	—	day
3	$1,500	$1,300	you save $200	week
4	$2,000	$1,300	you save $700	week
5	$2,500	$1,300	you save $1,200	week
6	$3,000	$1,300	you save $1,700	week
7	$3,500	$1,300	you save $2,200	week
8	$4,000	$1,800	you save $2,200	week
9	$4,500	$2,300	you save $2,200	week
10	$5,000	$2,600	you save $2,400	week
11	$5,500	$2,600	you save $2,900	week
12	$6,000	$2,600	you save $3,400	week
13	$6,500	$2,600	you save $3,900	week
14	$7,000	$2,600	you save $4,400	week
15	$7,500	$2,695	you save $4,805	28-day
16	$8,000	$2,695	you save $5,305	28-day
17	$8,500	$2,695	you save $5,805	28-day
18	$9,000	$2,695	you save $6,305	28-day
19	$9,500	$2,695	you save $6,805	28-day
20	$10,000	$2,695	you save $7,305	28-day
21	$10,500	$2,695	you save $7,805	28-day
22	$11,000	$2,695	you save $8,305	28-day
23	$11,500	$2,695	you save $8,805	28-day
24	$12,000	$2,695	you save $9,305	28-day
25	$12,500	$2,695	you save $9,805	28-day
26	$13,000	$2,695	you save $10,305	28-day
27	$13,500	$2,695	you save $10,805	28-day
28	$14,000	$2,695	you save $11,305	28-day
29	$14,500	$3,195	you save $11,305	day
30	$15,000	$3,695	you save $11,305	day
31	$15,500	$3,995	you save $11,505	week
32	$16,000	$3,995	you save $12,005	week
33	$16,500	$3,995	you save $12,505	week
34	$17,000	$3,995	you save $13,005	week
35	$17,500	$3,995	you save $13,505	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 · 15 days: $2,695
Rental protection (RPP): $404.25
Service fee: $269.50
Estimated total: $3,368.75

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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.