When is it cheaper to rent a 1000lb Wesco Battery Powered Forklift by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $130 day rate would be $650, but the weekly rate caps it at $540.

When is it cheaper to rent a 1000lb Wesco Battery Powered Forklift on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,530 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.

1000lb Wesco Battery Powered Forklift

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David Nemec · Forklifts - Industrial

Day: $130
Week: $540
28 days: $1,530

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $650. On the week rate it is $540.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $2,340. On the 28-day rate it is $1,530.

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 1000lb Wesco Battery Powered Forklift, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$130	$130	—	day
2	$260	$260	—	day
3	$390	$390	—	day
4	$520	$520	—	day
5	$650	$540	you save $110	week
6	$780	$540	you save $240	week
7	$910	$540	you save $370	week
8	$1,040	$670	you save $370	week
9	$1,170	$800	you save $370	week
10	$1,300	$930	you save $370	week
11	$1,430	$1,060	you save $370	week
12	$1,560	$1,080	you save $480	week
13	$1,690	$1,080	you save $610	week
14	$1,820	$1,080	you save $740	week
15	$1,950	$1,210	you save $740	week
16	$2,080	$1,340	you save $740	week
17	$2,210	$1,470	you save $740	week
18	$2,340	$1,530	you save $810	28-day
19	$2,470	$1,530	you save $940	28-day
20	$2,600	$1,530	you save $1,070	28-day
21	$2,730	$1,530	you save $1,200	28-day
22	$2,860	$1,530	you save $1,330	28-day
23	$2,990	$1,530	you save $1,460	28-day
24	$3,120	$1,530	you save $1,590	28-day
25	$3,250	$1,530	you save $1,720	28-day
26	$3,380	$1,530	you save $1,850	28-day
27	$3,510	$1,530	you save $1,980	28-day
28	$3,640	$1,530	you save $2,110	28-day
29	$3,770	$1,660	you save $2,110	day
30	$3,900	$1,790	you save $2,110	day
31	$4,030	$1,920	you save $2,110	day
32	$4,160	$2,050	you save $2,110	day
33	$4,290	$2,070	you save $2,220	week
34	$4,420	$2,070	you save $2,350	week
35	$4,550	$2,070	you save $2,480	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 · 18 days: $1,530
Rental protection (RPP): $229.50
Service fee: $153
Estimated total: $1,912.50

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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.