Does Gopuff Track Your Miles?

No. Gopuff's driver app shows your earnings, not your miles. Delivery partners see pay per order and tips, but no mileage log and no tax-ready mileage figure. Gopuff drivers often run the same loop all day, picking up at the facility, delivering, then driving back to that same facility. Run 15 of those round trips at 2 miles each way and that is 60 miles a day Gopuff never counted, worth $45.60 at the new 76 cent rate.

What does Gopuff's earnings summary actually show?

Gopuff's in-app earnings summary breaks down base pay, promotions, and tips per delivery, plus a period total. It does not include an odometer reading, a mileage total, or a dollar figure for a mileage deduction. At year end, Gopuff issues a 1099-NEC for the money it paid you, not a mileage report. That is normal for gig platforms, but it means the mileage deduction is entirely on you to build, and nothing in the app builds it for you.

What miles is Gopuff missing?

• The drive to the facility or micro-fulfillment center to start your shift.
• The return trip to the facility between orders, the classic Gopuff back-and-forth.
• Miles driven while repositioning or waiting for the next order to queue.
• Miles between drop-offs when a batch sends you across town and back before another pickup.

Those return-to-facility and between-order miles are officially called deadhead miles, and they are deductible even though you are not carrying a delivery when you drive them. Most Gopuff drivers never claim them, simply because nothing in the app flags them as work miles.

How much does that add up to over a year?

Take that 60 unlogged miles a day and run it across a full-time schedule, five shifts a week, fifty weeks a year. That is 15,000 miles Gopuff never showed you, and it only counts the warehouse round trips, not the waiting and repositioning miles on top of it. For the first half of 2026 those miles are worth 72.5 cents each. From July 1, 2026 onward they are worth 76 cents each. Either way, a year of unlogged facility miles like that leaves well over ten thousand dollars in deductions unclaimed, and once the tax year closes, that money is gone for good.

Even part-time drivers feel this. Ten warehouse round trips a week at 2 miles each way is 40 miles a week, roughly 2,000 miles a year, worth around $1,490 in deductions at the blended 2026 rate. Multiply that by however many gig apps you drive for on the same shift, and the number keeps climbing while your Gopuff earnings summary shows none of it.

What counts as deductible for a Gopuff delivery partner?

• The delivery drive itself, from pickup to the customer's door.
• The drive back to the facility between orders.
• Any driving between orders while you are on shift, including repositioning and dead time waiting on a batch.
• The drive to the facility to start your shift.

What does not count: your commute from home to wherever you start your first shift of the day. That is personal commuting, the same as any other job, and the IRS does not let you deduct it.

What should you track instead of trusting the app?

Since Gopuff does not give you a log, you need one that would hold up if the IRS asked questions. Manual odometer logging works, if you actually do it: write down your starting and ending odometer reading every shift, along with the purpose of the trip. What does not work is reconstructing your year in April from memory or a delivery count. The IRS wants a contemporaneous log, meaning the miles are recorded at or near the time you drove them, not rebuilt months later from guesswork.

How do you claim these miles on your taxes?

Gopuff delivery partners are classified as independent contractors, so your mileage gets claimed on Schedule C alongside your Gopuff income, not as a personal deduction. Multiply your logged business miles by the IRS rate in effect when you drove them: 72.5 cents a mile through June 30, 2026, then 76 cents a mile from July 1, 2026 on. That total reduces the income you are taxed on before you owe a dime. Walk through the full process at how to claim mileage on your taxes.

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