The drive isn't free. Put in a job's miles and see what it really costs you — fuel, wear on the truck, and your time behind the wheel — before you price the work.
Vehicle cost uses the IRS all-in benchmark of 72.5¢/mile for 2026 (fuel + maintenance + tires + depreciation) — your fuel input covers the gas share and the rest shows as wear. Estimates for pricing awareness, not accounting.
Most guys price a far job by glancing at the gas gauge. But the pump is only part of it — tires wear, oil changes come sooner, brakes and transmission age, and the truck loses value every mile. The IRS puts the all-in cost of a business mile at 72.5¢ for 2026, and fuel is usually only 20–30¢ of that.
Then there's the seat time. Forty minutes of driving at an $85 rate is $57 of your working day that nobody's paying for — unless you price it in. A "quick" job across town can quietly eat $75 before the work starts.
You don't have to call it a trip fee (though service trades have charged one forever). Bake it into the quote, set a minimum for far jobs, bundle stops on the same side of town — whatever fits how you work. The point is knowing the number instead of donating it.
And those same miles work for you in April: business miles are generally deductible at the IRS standard rate if you keep a record. Twenty-four miles is about $17 of deduction — log it once and it counts twice. That's exactly what SideWRK's per-job miles field and Tax wrap-up do.
SideWRK tracks each job's miles alongside what you charged and what parts cost you, so you see real profit per job — and at tax time, the year's miles and costs export in one tap.
See it first: open the live demo's Money tab — no sign-up.