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TrakMiles Pro was not built by a startup that surveyed some drivers. It was built by one — who spent four decades building accounting systems that had to balance at scale.
TrakMiles Pro is built by Henry, a multi-app gig driver who spent forty years building accounting systems: point of sale in the 1980s, then subscriber billing for the largest independent dial-up network in the United States, serving over 500,000 customers. That is why the app has real double-entry accounting instead of a mileage list, and why Company View keeps per-driver books that roll up without a central server. He still drives Lyft, DoorDash, Walmart Spark and Grubhub.
Four decades, one recurring problem: somebody always has to keep the books.
It started with PCs and point of sale systems. Every install had the same requirement underneath the hardware — the books had to balance. A shop owner did not care about the terminal; they cared whether the day’s takings reconciled. That is where the habit of building for the ledger rather than the interface came from.
MCI came calling early about this thing called the internet. What followed was the largest independent internet dial-up network in the United States, built on a franchise model because points of presence were needed everywhere and no single company could plant them all. The company went on to acquire the largest independent network in Canada, and the ISP.com domain along the way.
At its height it served more than 500,000 subscribers, with a real-time branded call center behind it.
Here is the part that matters for a mileage app. Every franchisee needed their own books, for their own territory, with their own numbers — while everything still rolled up nationally. Per-operator accounting that stayed individual and aggregated at the same time.
That is exactly the problem Company View solves today. Each driver keeps their own records, attached to their own vehicle, and the business sees the combined picture. Same architecture, twenty-five years apart and several orders of magnitude smaller.
In 2002 the company replaced IBM as the data networking supplier to the Salt Lake Winter Olympics. There is a framed jersey on the wall from that year. It has nothing to do with tracking miles, and everything to do with being comfortable building systems that cannot fall over when the load arrives.
Along the way came recognition as an Ernst & Young regional Technology Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. The business sold to a public company, was bought back about a year later, and sold again in 2006.
Which brings us to a car. Lyft most days, plus DoorDash, Walmart Spark, Grubhub, Uber Eats and Expedite. Multiple apps, one vehicle, and at the end of the year a genuine mess.
The tools available were a mileage logger, a separate accounting app, and a spreadsheet trying to hold the two together. None of them could answer the simplest question a business owner asks: what did I actually make last Tuesday, after what it cost me to make it?
Forty years of building accounting systems, and the one for people who drive for a living did not exist.
Three things TrakMiles Pro does differently, and where each one came from.
Every competitor ships a mileage logger with expenses bolted on. TrakMiles Pro runs real double-entry accounting underneath: revenue by platform, expenses, receipts, hours, and a profit and loss that maps onto Schedule C. Building ledgers that balance is the founder’s actual trade, so it was the starting point rather than a feature request.
The books live on your device and back up to your own Google Drive. Not to our server, because there is no server holding your income. Twenty years of running subscriber data for half a million people is a good way to learn how much of other people’s information you actually want to be holding.
Because he does. The app was designed from the start around multiple platforms and one vehicle, which is how most drivers actually work and something single-platform tools handle badly.
Everything unlocked, no credit card, and the same person who built it answers the support email.
Get TrakMiles Pro on Google PlayHenry, a multi-app gig driver who has spent forty years building accounting systems. He drives Lyft daily plus DoorDash, Walmart Spark, Grubhub and Uber Eats, and he wrote the app because nothing on the market did what he needed.
Because accounting at scale is what the founder did before this. Point of sale systems in the 1980s, then subscriber billing for more than half a million dial-up customers. Building real books was the familiar part; the mileage tracking came from the driving.
The largest independent internet dial-up network in the United States, built on a franchise model so local operators could run their own territories. It later acquired the largest independent network in Canada and the ISP.com domain, and served over 500,000 subscribers.
The same company replaced IBM as the data networking supplier to the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics. It is a long way from gig driving, but it is the reason the founder is comfortable building systems that have to keep working when the numbers get large.
No. It is one person who drives for a living and writes the software. That is why support answers quickly and why the roadmap follows what drivers actually ask for.