I genuinely thought I'd tracked maybe 800 miles all year. Once the Timeline matching ran, it was over 3,900. That's not a rounding error, that's a different tax bill.
Notice regarding: Tax Year 2024 · Schedule C
Deadline: April 15 — don't let it slide again
You drove all year.
There's an exact number for what that's worth.
You just don't have it written down anywhere. Upload your gig earnings statements and your Google Maps history, and MilesRescue reads them side by side to hand you back the itemized log the IRS wants to see — before you file this year away as money you'll never see again.
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Takes about 15 minutes. See a real reconstruction ↓
Your files stay yours — delete any upload, or your whole log, whenever you want.
Exhibit A
This is what "no mileage log" actually costs, itemized
Every trip in a MilesRescue log carries its own paper trail — where the mileage came from, and how sure we are about it. Nothing gets blended into one suspiciously round number.
| Date | Platform | Source | Miles | Deduction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03/14/2024 | Uber | Timeline-Matched | 21.8 mi | $14.61 |
| 03/15/2024 | DoorDash | Estimated | 9.6 mi | $6.43 |
| 03/19/2024 | Instacart | Timeline-Matched | 14.2 mi | $9.51 |
| 03/22/2024 | DoorDash | Manual | 6.4 mi | $4.29 |
| Total — Tax Year 2024 | 4,312 mi | $2,889.04 | ||
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A note, from one late filer to another
Here's the part nobody tells you until it's too late
Your 1099 arrived, and it's a bigger number than you remembered earning. You go looking for the mileage log you were supposed to keep — the one every gig-driving forum told you to keep — and there's nothing. No notebook. No spreadsheet. Maybe a folder of app screenshots you took twice and then gave up on in February.
This is not a rare situation. It is, statistically, the normal one. Most gig drivers finish the year with zero contemporaneous mileage records, discover it during the exact week their return is due, and are left choosing between two bad options: hand a preparer a made-up number that won't survive a second glance, or quietly eat a $3,000–$10,000 deduction because rebuilding it by hand from memory and screenshots would take a weekend you don't have.
There is a third option, and it isn't guessing harder. You already generated two independent records of everywhere you drove for work, without trying to: your platform's earnings statement, which knows exactly which days you were active, and your phone's Google Maps Timeline, which knows exactly where your phone physically went. Neither one alone is a mileage log. Cross-referenced against each other, they very nearly are.
That's the entire mechanism behind MilesRescue. Upload both. We match your worked dates to your recorded driving segments and generate a trip-by-trip log, labeling every single row by exactly how confident we are in it — matched, estimated, or added by you. You review it, fix anything that looks wrong, and export a PDF formatted the way IRS Publication 463 expects to see it. What used to take a lost weekend now takes about the length of a coffee break.
— The MilesRescue team, built for the January–April panic window
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Filing instructions
Three lines to complete before you can print
1
Attach your documents
Drag in your Uber, DoorDash, Instacart, Lyft, or Amazon Flex earnings statements — plus your Google Maps Timeline export, if you have one. CSV, JSON, or KML, all accepted.
Delete any file, or the whole log, anytime — it's your data.
2
Let reconstruction run
MilesRescue matches worked dates against location history and drafts a trip-by-trip log automatically. No Timeline export? We estimate from your worked dates instead, and say so plainly.
3
Review, sign off, export
Edit any row in a plain spreadsheet view, mark the log reviewed, then download your IRS-formatted PDF and CSV — ready to hand to your preparer.
Filed statements
What drivers found when they finally looked
I didn't have any Timeline data — phone died, history got cleared, whatever. The estimated log was still labeled honestly enough that my preparer was comfortable using it.
Took me about eighteen minutes start to finish, and I fixed three trips that looked off before I exported. Better than the weekend I'd budgeted for it.
$3K–$10K+
Typical deduction gig drivers leave unclaimed with no log
~20 min
Median time from first upload to a finished export
3,000+ mi
Average business miles reconstructed per log in early access
2022–25
Tax years supported, correct IRS mileage rate applied automatically
Before you sign anything
Questions worth asking a tool like this
Will the IRS accept a mileage log I reconstruct after the fact?
The IRS requires records that are "adequate and made at or near the time" of the expense, but reconstructed logs based on real supporting evidence (like location history and earnings records) are a widely used and accepted practice when contemporaneous logs weren't kept. MilesRescue clearly labels which trips are matched to your location history versus estimated, so you and your preparer can see exactly what's backed by what. This isn't tax or legal advice — always confirm with your tax preparer.
What if I don't have a Google Maps Timeline export?
You can still use MilesRescue. Without Timeline data, we generate an estimated log distributed across the days you show earnings activity, and every estimated trip is clearly labeled as such so you know exactly what you're handing your preparer.
Which platforms are supported?
Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, and Amazon Flex earnings exports are supported today, plus a generic CSV option for any other platform's statement format.
What tax years can I use this for?
You can create a log for any tax year from 2022 through 2025. MilesRescue automatically applies the correct IRS standard mileage rate for the year you select.
What happens to my uploaded data?
Your files are used only to reconstruct your mileage log. You can delete any uploaded file, or your entire log and all its data, at any time from within the app.
Is this actually free?
Yes — MilesRescue is free to use while we're in early access. No credit card is required to sign up, create a log, or export your PDF and spreadsheet.
Free during early access
Close out this tax year before April 15 closes it out on you.
Upload what you already have. MilesRescue rebuilds the log, you review it, and you walk away with a PDF and spreadsheet your preparer can actually use — no card, no cost, while we're in early access.
Estimated completion time: 15–20 minutes
No credit card required