Only a year-end mileage estimate, emailed by January 31 to US and Canada Dashers who dashed by car and had on-delivery mileage. No in-year mileage log is described.
Source: help.doordash.com · checked 2026-09-27Mileage for DoorDash drivers
A mileage tracker for DoorDash — because DoorDash only sends an estimate
DoorDash does not keep a mileage log you can open during the year. It emails Dashers who drove a car a mileage estimate by January 31, and that estimate covers on-delivery mileage only. The 1099-NEC you get in the Dasher app carries no miles at all. Miles you drive before an order is assigned — to a hotspot, between offers, and back home — are not in DoorDash's figure, so the only complete record is one you keep yourself, drive by drive, as you work.
From DoorDash's own help pages
What DoorDash's record shows — and what it leaves out
“On-delivery mileage” — DoorDash does not define the term further on its tax help pages.
Source: help.doordash.com · checked 2026-09-27Driving to a hotspot, waiting for offers, miles between orders, and the drive home are not described as part of the on-delivery figure. Dashers who did not dash by car get no estimate at all.
Source: help.doordash.com · checked 2026-09-271099-NEC in the Dasher app (Earnings › View payout details › Tax documents) by January 31 if you earned $600 or more in tax year 2025. The form carries no mileage; tips are reported to you separately by email.
Source: help.doordash.com · checked 2026-09-27Everlance — a Dasher-exclusive 20% off Everlance Premium for a year (code EVERDASH). DoorDash sends its own estimate only if you have not used Everlance.
Source: help.doordash.com · checked 2026-09-27The IRS raised the 1099-NEC reporting threshold from $600 to $2,000 for tax years beginning after 2025 — DoorDash's page still describes the 2025 figure.
Source: irs.gov · checked 2026-09-27What the gap is worth
One shift, two numbers
Illustrative shift, not DoorDash data: 41 miles with an order in the car, plus 23 miles to the hotspot, between offers and home. Rate: IRS standard mileage rate for the period the miles were driven in.
Example · miles the DoorDash record does not show $17.48
23 mi · Jul–Dec 2026 × 76¢/mi = $17.48
Why an estimate is not a mileage log
The IRS asks for a record of business miles made at or near the time you drive them — date, where you went, the business purpose and the miles (IRS Publication 463). DoorDash's email is none of those things: it arrives once, after the year is over, as a single number, and DoorDash itself calls it an estimate. It is useful as a cross-check against your own log. It is weak as the log itself, because it cannot show which days and which drives make up the total, and it only covers the miles DoorDash considers on-delivery.
The miles a Dasher drives that DoorDash does not count
A typical dash starts before the first order: you drive from home to a busy zone, sit, reposition when nothing comes in, and often drive back across town after the last drop-off. None of those stretches has an order attached, so none of them is on-delivery mileage. Whether each of those miles is deductible depends on your situation — a tax professional can tell you which ones count for you — but a mile you never recorded cannot be claimed at all. The point of your own tracker is to have every drive written down, and decide about each one afterwards.
How CatchMile keeps the Dasher log
CatchMile detects drives in the background, so it records the drive to the hotspot as well as the drive to the customer — it does not wait for an order to exist, because it knows nothing about DoorDash orders. Each drive gets a date, start and end address, and distance. You swipe it Business, Personal or Commute. Each drive is valued at the IRS rate for its own date: 72.5¢ a mile for January–June 2026 and 76¢ a mile for July–December. And if the tracker stops — location permission revoked, battery optimisation, or a shift with no drives at all — the app shows it, so a lost week can be caught in the app rather than in January, when DoorDash's estimate arrives.
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DoorDash mileage — questions drivers ask
Does DoorDash track my mileage?
Not in a way you can see during the year. DoorDash emails an estimate of your on-delivery mileage by January 31, only if you dashed by car. It is a single yearly number, not a list of drives.
Is DoorDash's mileage estimate enough for my taxes?
It is an estimate of on-delivery miles only, made after the year ends. The IRS expects a record made at or near the time of each drive, so most Dashers keep their own log and use DoorDash's figure as a cross-check. Ask a tax professional about your case.
Where is my DoorDash 1099 and does it show miles?
The 1099-NEC is in the Dasher app under Earnings › View payout details › Tax documents by January 31. It shows what DoorDash paid you, not how far you drove.
Why does DoorDash recommend Everlance?
DoorDash has a partner offer — 20% off Everlance Premium for a year with code EVERDASH — and says it sends its own mileage information only if you have not used Everlance. Any tracker that records each drive as it happens serves the same purpose.
Do I still get a 1099-NEC from DoorDash if I earned under $2,000 in 2026?
The IRS raised the 1099-NEC threshold to $2,000 for tax years beginning after 2025, so a smaller year may bring no form. Your income is taxable either way, and your miles still need a record.
