Mileage receipts for DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub
Pickup, dropoff and between-order travel.
Food delivery couriers have the highest volume of short trips in the gig economy: the cumulative passes 5,000 km a month for full-timers. The problem is the platform does not capture deadhead — the travel between orders and the repositioning to a hot-spot. This profile shows how to log every professional kilometer, even the ones the app ignores.
Common pains
Platform does not capture deadhead — Between-order travel is not logged by the app, but it is deductible.
Idle hot-spot wait — Waiting in a hot zone is deductible professional travel.
Multi-platform — Running DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub at once fragments the log.
Best practices
Use an auto-logging app — It captures the deadhead that platforms ignore.
Use the start/end-of-shift odometer — The shift total serves as a tax benchmark.
Log hot-spot positioning — Repositioning is frequently forgotten.
Frequently asked questions
Does deadhead count?
Yes, all professional travel is deductible.
DoorDash and Uber Eats together?
Yes, keep one unified log across platforms.
Home to hot-spot?
In the US, no (it is a commute); in Brazil and Mexico, yes.
Couriers who document recover up to US$ 35,000/year in deductions.