Every mile you drive for DoorDash is worth 72.5¢ off your taxable income. Over a year that's often thousands of dollars — but only if it's logged. Routio tracks every mile automatically in the background and turns it into an IRS-ready deduction. No buttons, no account.
The standard mileage deduction is one of the biggest tax breaks gig drivers get — and most of it is lost simply because the miles weren't tracked.
Deducted from your taxable income for every business mile you drive in 2026 (IRS standard rate).
A typical part-time Dasher can rack up five figures of miles a year — that's potentially thousands in deductions.
What those miles save you if they aren't logged. Memory and bank statements don't satisfy the IRS — a contemporaneous log does.
Start dashing and Routio detects the drive and records it in the background — across every order, all night. No remembering to hit start, no draining your focus while you drive.
Swipe to mark a drive as a delivery shift or personal, and Routio learns your patterns so it sorts most of them for you. Your deductible miles stay separate from your errands.
At year end, one tap builds a Schedule C mileage summary with PDF & CSV exports — the number you put on your taxes, with an audit-ready log behind it.
If you're an independent contractor (which Dashers are), the business miles you drive while working are generally deductible at the IRS standard mileage rate — 72.5¢ per mile for 2026. Routio logs them automatically so you have the records to claim them. (This is general information, not tax advice — check with a tax professional.)
DoorDash provides a mileage estimate, but it typically only covers active delivery miles and may understate your real total (it often misses the drive to your starting zone and between orders). A dedicated, contemporaneous log like Routio's captures the full picture.
Generally, miles driven while working — including between deliveries and to your starting area — can count as business miles. Routio records the whole shift automatically so nothing slips through.
The IRS expects a contemporaneous mileage log to back up the deduction. That's exactly what Routio keeps for you, automatically, with dates, routes, and totals.
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