When is it cheaper to rent a 10 Yard Dumpster by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $170 day rate would be $510, but the weekly rate caps it at $340.

When is it cheaper to rent a 10 Yard Dumpster on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,200 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.

10 Yard Dumpster

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John Serrano · Site Support - Dumpsters

Day: $170
Week: $340
28 days: $1,200

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $510. On the week rate it is $340.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $3,910. On the 28-day rate it is $1,200.

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 10 Yard Dumpster, 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	$340	you save $170	week
4	$680	$340	you save $340	week
5	$850	$340	you save $510	week
6	$1,020	$340	you save $680	week
7	$1,190	$340	you save $850	week
8	$1,360	$510	you save $850	week
9	$1,530	$680	you save $850	week
10	$1,700	$680	you save $1,020	week
11	$1,870	$680	you save $1,190	week
12	$2,040	$680	you save $1,360	week
13	$2,210	$680	you save $1,530	week
14	$2,380	$680	you save $1,700	week
15	$2,550	$850	you save $1,700	week
16	$2,720	$1,020	you save $1,700	week
17	$2,890	$1,020	you save $1,870	week
18	$3,060	$1,020	you save $2,040	week
19	$3,230	$1,020	you save $2,210	week
20	$3,400	$1,020	you save $2,380	week
21	$3,570	$1,020	you save $2,550	week
22	$3,740	$1,190	you save $2,550	week
23	$3,910	$1,200	you save $2,710	28-day
24	$4,080	$1,200	you save $2,880	28-day
25	$4,250	$1,200	you save $3,050	28-day
26	$4,420	$1,200	you save $3,220	28-day
27	$4,590	$1,200	you save $3,390	28-day
28	$4,760	$1,200	you save $3,560	28-day
29	$4,930	$1,370	you save $3,560	day
30	$5,100	$1,540	you save $3,560	day
31	$5,270	$1,540	you save $3,730	week
32	$5,440	$1,540	you save $3,900	week
33	$5,610	$1,540	you save $4,070	week
34	$5,780	$1,540	you save $4,240	week
35	$5,950	$1,540	you save $4,410	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 · 23 days: $1,200
Rental protection (RPP): $180
Service fee: $120
Estimated total: $1,500

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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.