Does Roadie Track Your Mileage?

No. Roadie tracks a gig's route for delivery purposes, not your tax mileage. Say your run is a 90-mile delivery: 20 miles to the pickup, 90 miles to the drop-off, then 70 miles home empty because there's no return load. That's 180 miles driven, but Roadie's app only reflects the paid delivery leg. The missing 90 miles cost you $65 to $68 in deductions on that one run, at 72.5 cents through June 30, 2026 and 76 cents per mile after.

Does Roadie give drivers a mileage report for taxes?

Roadie is built to route and price gigs, not to file your Schedule C. The app shows you the estimated distance for a listed delivery so you can decide whether the payout is worth the drive. That's a routing number, not a tax record. Roadie doesn't reimburse you for vehicle costs, and it doesn't hand you an odometer log at year end. If you're only counting the miles Roadie shows you on the gig itself, you're leaving real deductions on the table.

What miles does Roadie actually miss?

• The drive from home (or wherever you are) to the pickup location
• The delivery drive itself, pickup to drop-off
• The return drive after you drop off, often long and often empty on Roadie
• Miles driven between gigs while you're actively looking for the next one

Roadie runs skew longer than a lot of gig delivery work. You might drive 40 miles to grab a package, haul it 100 miles across state lines, then turn around and drive 100 miles back with nothing in the vehicle. That empty return leg is called a deadhead mile, and it's fully deductible even though no app tracked it and no customer paid for it.

Why do deadhead miles matter so much on Roadie?

Because Roadie specializes in longer, farther-flung runs than a typical food delivery gig, the deadhead problem is bigger here. A short local delivery might leave you 2 or 3 miles from home when you're done. A Roadie run can leave you 60 or 100 miles out, with a long empty drive back before you're anywhere near your next opportunity. If you only log the miles Roadie shows for the paid leg, you're routinely missing the biggest chunk of your actual driving.

What can you deduct as a Roadie driver?

As an independent contractor, you report Roadie income on Schedule C, and mileage is usually the single largest deduction available to you. Deductible miles include the drive to the pickup, the delivery drive, and the return or deadhead drive afterward, plus any miles you rack up between gigs while you're working. Your regular commute from home to your first pickup of the day, when that's just your normal starting point and not a work errand, is the one gray area worth understanding, but everything from an active gig onward counts.

What mileage rate applies in 2026?

The IRS set the 2026 standard mileage rate at 72.5 cents per mile for driving from January 1 through June 30. On July 1, 2026, it rose to 76 cents per mile for the rest of the year. If you drove Roadie runs across that date, you need to split your mileage into two periods and apply the correct rate to each. A flat rate for the whole year will get your deduction wrong in either direction.

What does the IRS require to back up a mileage deduction?

The IRS wants a record made at or near the time you drove, not a number you reconstructed in April from memory or a bank statement. That's called a contemporaneous log, and it needs the date, the miles, and the business purpose of each drive. A guess written months later, even an honest one, doesn't hold up if you're ever asked to show your work.

How do you claim these miles on your taxes?

Once you have a real log, the miles get totaled and applied against the correct half-year rate, then reported on Schedule C alongside your Roadie earnings. If you want the full walkthrough on forms and where the numbers go, we cover it step by step in how to claim mileage on your taxes.

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