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It’s sad, but unfortunately, most people don’t understand the true cost of using your vehicle to run a business which is essentially what you’re doing when you deliver for Spark. The offers that you receive will only have the mileage from the store to the last stop for that trip but if that’s 12 miles outside of town, you’re gonna have to drive an additional 12 miles to get back into town or back to the store. It makes no sense to me that they don’t come account for this at all in any of their calculations especially since I’ve seen trips that take you about 23 1/2 miles outside of town which if you were to complete the trip would have cost you more money than you would’ve made After calculating Expenses. 2025 the IRS mileage deduction rate is $.70 per mile. This means that the IRS has determined that after factoring all vehicle costs for mileage, gas insurance toll fees, car washes, etc. should total around $.70 per mile. So you need to take your total mileage, including your trip back to your house or to the store and multiply that by $.70 to get An average idea of the expenses that the trip will cost you. Then subtract that from the pay that you’re being offered, and you’ll be lucky if you break even. Most of the time you’ll end up paying because it’ll be a negative number that you come up with after doing that calculation. How is a two to $3 billion corporation gonna send out offers to drivers appearing like they can make some money when in all actuality they’re actually delivering for the company for free or at their own expense. The algorithm and pay system that they use is incredibly flawed.
