Mileage Tracker for Delivery and Rideshare Drivers in Canada

If you deliver for DoorDash, Uber Eats or SkipTheDishes, or drive for Uber or Lyft, you are self-employed and your car is almost certainly your biggest deduction (food delivery and rideshare deductions in full). You claim a share of what the car actually cost you, fuel, insurance, repairs, loan interest and depreciation, and that share is your business-use percentage: business kilometres divided by total kilometres for the year.

The percentage comes from your logbook, so the log is worth more than any single receipt. A gig driver's log is also harder to keep than most, for three reasons this page goes through, and they decide which mileage tracker can do the job.

Which kilometres count

A kilometre is business when you are logged in and earning: heading to a restaurant or a passenger, or carrying an order or a fare. The drive from home to your start zone before you go online is generally personal, and so is the drive home after you log off.

That makes the boundary of a business trip different from the boundary of a drive. You leave home, drive fifteen minutes to the busy part of town, go online, and spend four hours on orders. To your phone that can look like one long outing. To the CRA, the first fifteen minutes are personal and the rest is business. The commuting rule behind this is in commuting versus business driving.

What it is worth getting right

Take a driver whose car covered 30,000 km in the year, 21,000 of them online and earning, with $9,000 of running costs and depreciation.

	Business km	Business-use %	Vehicle claim
Logged correctly	21,000	70%	$6,300
Home-to-zone drives also logged as business (3,000 km)	24,000	80%	$7,200

The second row looks like a gain and is the one a reviewer cuts, because the same drive at the same hour every day is easy to spot. The bigger risk is having no log at all: then there is nothing to support any percentage, and the claim can be reduced or denied (what happens in a CRA vehicle review).

Three things that make a gig log different

1. Volume. A delivery shift is a pickup and a drop-off per order, plus the moves between zones. Ten orders is twenty or more legs. Any tracker that caps its free plan by drives or trips will run out within a few shifts, so for a full-time driver the free tiers of most apps cover days, not months.

2. One car, one log, every app. Your business-use percentage belongs to the car, not to the platform. If you run DoorDash and Uber Eats at the same time, or drive Uber in the morning and deliver in the evening, all of it is business driving in the same log. A tracker that records the car's driving whatever app is open does this for you; one log per platform does not, and leaves you to add them up without counting the same kilometre twice.

3. Personal driving still has to be recorded. The percentage needs total kilometres. Either your tracker records personal drives as well, or you rely on the odometer readings at the start and end of the year for the total (why the two readings matter). Take both photos whatever you use.

Whatever a platform shows you about your trips, the CRA's log asks for every business trip with its date, destination, purpose and kilometres, plus the year's odometer readings, and keeping it is on you (what a CRA logbook has to contain).

What to look for in a tracker

• Automatic recording. At twenty legs a shift, a log you start and stop by hand will have gaps by the second week.
• A cap your month fits inside, or none. Count a normal week's legs and multiply by four and a bit before you rely on a free plan.
• A way to mark part of a drive personal. The drive to your zone and the shift after it should not have to share a label.
• Personal driving kept, not discarded. It is the denominator of your percentage.
• The percentage itself, if you would rather not divide business by total kilometres at year end.

How the established trackers fit

Every limit below was read from each company's own Canadian page or Canadian App Store listing in October 2026. The full comparison is in the best mileage tracker apps in Canada.

• TripLog records without limit on its free plan, which makes it the only established free plan that can hold a full-time gig driver's year. It gives one free report pass a year and leaves the percentage to you.
• MileIQ shows 40 drives a month on its free plan and keeps detecting past that, but the drives beyond 40 sit behind the paid plan. Its reports value drives at a per-kilometre rate, which is the right shape for an employee and not for a T2125.
• Driversnote covers 15 trips a month free, less than one busy shift. Its Canadian report gives the business and personal split and the percentage, so it suits a driver who pays for Pro.
• Everlance covers 30 automatic trips a month free, plus unlimited manual trips.
• Claimable Drive, our app for iPhone, in beta on TestFlight, records in the background, and a drive can be split at a stop, so the leg to your zone files personal and the shift files business. It keeps personal drives, works out the percentage and asks for the odometer readings when they are due. Its free plan is thirty drives a month, which a delivery driver passes in a couple of shifts; a subscription keeps it recording. It is iPhone only.

For a full-time driver the honest summary is that the free plans are a trial, and the choice is between a paid plan and TripLog's free unlimited recording with the arithmetic done by you (how to calculate the business-use percentage).

FAQ

Is the drive to my first order deductible? Generally not. The drive from home to the area where you go online is treated as personal, like a commute. Business driving starts when you are logged in and heading to a pickup or carrying an order or a passenger.

I drive for two apps at once. Do I need two logs? No. The percentage belongs to the car. One log of the car's driving, with business and personal kilometres, covers every platform you work on.

Can I deduct the CRA's per-kilometre rate instead of keeping receipts? No. The per-kilometre rate is the tax-free allowance an employer may pay an employee. A self-employed driver claims actual costs multiplied by the business-use percentage, so you need both the log and the receipts (who can use the CRA mileage rate).

What if I started tracking partway through the year? A log covers the period it was kept for. Starting a mileage log mid-year explains what a partial log supports and what it does not.

Sources

1. CRA, Motor vehicle records: https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/businesses/topics/sole-proprietorships-partnerships/business-expenses/motor-vehicle-expenses/motor-vehicle-records.html
2. CRA, Motor vehicle expenses: https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/businesses/topics/sole-proprietorships-partnerships/business-expenses/motor-vehicle-expenses.html
3. TripLog, Pricing: https://www.triplog.net/pricing
4. MileIQ Canada, Pricing: https://mileiq.com/en-ca/pricing
5. MileIQ Support, free drive limit: https://support.mileiq.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004851126
6. Driversnote Canada, Pricing: https://www.driversnote.ca/pricing
7. Everlance on the Canadian App Store: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/mileage-tracker-by-everlance/id985378916
8. Claimable Drive: https://tryclaimable.ca/drive