Mileage Tracking

Turn on tracking and YardPath records the miles between jobs automatically, building a log with the four things a mileage record needs, date, purpose, destination, and distance, that you can hand to your accountant at tax time. Distances are estimated from your device’s location readings, not your odometer, so give your trips a look and correct anything that drifted, here’s exactly how each number is worked out.

The trips YardPath has doubts about, poor signal, no network at entry time, a trip that didn’t close cleanly, are gathered under Trips to Check with a caption saying what’s off, and you can correct any distance in a tap. That list catches what the app noticed and nothing more, a trip it never raised hasn’t been checked by anyone, so the log is still yours to read before you rely on it. In the exported PDF every trip carries a label saying where its distance came from, here’s what those labels mean.

When a trip is running, a Live Activity keeps it visible on your Lock Screen so you always know tracking is on. And because miles are money, a deduction-value counter shows what those logged miles are worth at the current IRS rate, the write-off adding up as you drive.

Forgot to start it? Log a trip by hand, it’s dated to the job, not to today, so a trip you enter for yesterday’s work lands on the right date instead of silently misdating your records.

Everything stays on your device. There’s no fleet dashboard and no one else watching where you drive.