The mileage tracker built for Spark drivers

Walmart's driver help docs say it outright: "Walmart doesn't provide drivers with mileage summaries." Not an estimate, not a year-end number - nothing. Every deductible mile you drive for Spark exists only if you record it yourself, and at the current IRS rate of 76 cents per mile (72.5 cents before July 2026), those records are worth thousands. GigOdo keeps them automatically, free.

With Spark, there is no fallback log

DoorDash and Uber at least hand drivers a rough estimate to argue about. Spark drivers start from zero - if you didn't track it, it didn't happen. The miles that add up fastest:

• To the store - accepting an offer across town means real miles before you ever pick up the order
• Store to customer - the delivery itself, including apartment hunts and rural drops
• Between zones - repositioning to a store or zone with better round robin action
• Between offers - miles while you're available and waiting on the next first-come or round robin ping

(The final drive home is generally nondeductible commuting.) A Spark driver logging 700 working miles a month is sitting on about $507 of deduction per month - over $6,000 a year - and Walmart will hand you no record of any of it. A contemporaneous log of your own is exactly what the IRS wants to see.

How Spark drivers use GigOdo

• Turn on Auto-Detect (Android) and just work. GigOdo notices when you start driving and tracks in the background while you shop, deliver, and wait. Swipe right to keep work drives, left to discard the personal ones.
• Home Zone makes it hands-free: leave home, tracking starts; pull back in, the trip files itself - then the tracker deep-sleeps so it doesn't touch your battery overnight.
• Log what each shift paid. Spark's offer screen shows an estimated payout before you accept - GigOdo is where you record what you actually made, including your customer-confirmed tips, and see your real net $/hour after gas.
• Shopping offers distort $/mile - an hour in the aisles is zero miles. Because GigOdo tracks hours and miles separately per platform, your Spark net $/hr stays honest next to your DoorDash or Uber Eats number.
• Tax time: deduction totals at the IRS rate all year, CSV export free, and a CPA-ready report pack with quarterly estimates in Pro.

Your own numbers matter more on Spark than anywhere

In February 2026, Walmart agreed to a $100 million judgment settling FTC and state charges over how Spark driver earnings were presented - allegations included inflated pay displays and tips removed from batched orders without notice. Whatever you make of the allegations, the lesson for drivers is the same: the platform's numbers are the platform's numbers. Keeping your own independent record of every offer's real pay, tip, and mileage is how you know what Spark actually pays you - per hour, per mile, after gas. That's precisely the record GigOdo builds, and by Gridwise's 2025 driver data (14,666 Spark drivers, published April 2026), the median Spark driver grossed $22.57/hr - knowing whether you're above or below that line starts with tracking it.

No form, no record - unless you keep one

For payments starting January 2026, the federal 1099-NEC threshold jumped from $600 to $2,000. Plenty of part-time Spark drivers will get no tax form at all - and every dollar is still taxable. When no form arrives, your own log isn't just the best record of your income and miles; it's the only one. Our tax guides cover what to do with it (estimates, not tax advice).

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