Does Amazon Flex Track Your Miles?

No. Amazon Flex does not track your mileage. It is not in the app, not in your weekly earnings summary, and not on your 1099 at year end. If you drive 40 miles on a single delivery block, that is roughly $30.40 in deductions at the second-half 2026 rate of 76 cents a mile, gone, unless you write it down yourself.

Does the Amazon Flex app track mileage at all?

No. Flex pays you per block, a fixed amount for a scheduled window of time, not per mile and not per delivery. Because pay is not mileage-based, the app has no reason to log your route. Check your own account and you will find the same thing every Flex driver finds: no odometer reading, no route distance, no mileage total on your weekly pay statement or your annual 1099-NEC. The block confirms you worked. It says nothing about how far you drove to do it.

That silence is the problem. As a Flex driver you are classified as an independent contractor, which means you report your delivery income and expenses on Schedule C. The IRS lets you deduct business mileage using the standard mileage rate, but it puts the burden on you to prove the miles. No tracking from Amazon means no proof unless you build it yourself.

What miles can you actually deduct as a Flex driver?

The deductible list is broader than most new Flex drivers assume. Once you are working, nearly every mile from the moment you leave for the station until the moment you are done for the day can count.

• Miles driven during the block itself, from pickup at the station through every stop on your route
• Miles driving to the delivery station specifically to start a scheduled block
• Miles driven between blocks on the same day if you are running errands tied to work, repositioning, or waiting near a station for a same-day offer
• Miles driven back from your last stop or from the station once the block ends

That is the full shape of a working day for a Flex driver, and almost none of it shows up anywhere in the Flex app. For the mechanics of turning that list into an actual deduction, see our guide on how to claim mileage on your taxes.

What about the drive from home to the delivery station?

This is the part drivers get wrong most often, so be careful with it. The first drive of the day, from your home to the station where you pick up your route, and the last drive, from the station back home once you are fully done working, are typically treated as commuting. Commuting miles are generally not deductible, the same way an office worker cannot deduct their drive to work. This is a gray area that depends on your specific setup, since some drivers work from a qualifying home office, which changes the answer. When in doubt, keep it simple and conservative: treat the direct home-to-station and station-to-home legs as commuting, and count everything in between, station to station, station to route, route to route, as business mileage.

Miles you drive without a paying purpose attached, like circling to find parking or repositioning between offers, still belong in your log. Our glossary explains that category in more detail: deadhead miles.

How much is untracked mileage actually costing you?

Do the math on a normal week. Say you run four 3-hour blocks, and each one covers about 35 miles of actual driving once you count the route, the drive to the station, and the drive back. That is 140 miles a week that Amazon never recorded anywhere.

Before July 1, 2026, at 72.5 cents a mile, 140 miles is $101.50 in deductions. From July 1, 2026 onward, at the new 76 cents a mile, the same 140 miles is $106.40.

Miss a week like that every month and you are looking at over $1,200 a year in deductions you cannot claim, because there is nothing to back them up if the IRS asks. Multiply that across a full year of Flex work and the number gets uncomfortable fast, especially since Flex income tends to come in bursts across busy weeks and slow weeks, which makes it even easier to lose track without a running log.

What should you actually do about it?

Since Amazon will not do this for you, you have two real options. You can keep a manual, written log every time you drive, noting the date, the odometer reading at the start and end of each block, and the purpose of the trip. The IRS requires this kind of contemporaneous record either way, meaning notes made at or near the time of the drive, not reconstructed from memory months later at tax time. Our glossary covers exactly what that standard means: contemporaneous log.

The other option is to stop relying on memory and let your phone do the recording while you drive your blocks.

Log every Flex mile automatically, from the drive to the station through the last drop-off, with TruMile →

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