I didn't build MileVault because I woke up one day wanting to create another mileage app.
I built it because I was tired of dealing with the same problem year after year.
My career has kept me on the road—driving to meetings, visiting customers, checking on projects, prospecting, running from one side of town to the other, and sometimes looking at the clock at the end of the day wondering how I managed to spend that many hours behind the wheel.
And somewhere in the middle of actually doing my job, I was also supposed to remember every mile.
Where did I start?
Where did I stop?
Was that trip business or personal?
What customer did I see that day?
Did I write the mileage down somewhere?
And where exactly is "somewhere"?
I've tried notebooks. Spreadsheets. Phone notes. Calendars. Receipts. Apps. And, more times than I'd like to admit, trying to reconstruct months of driving after the fact.
If you drive for work, you probably know exactly what I'm talking about.
You tell yourself, "I'll log it later."
Then later becomes tomorrow.
Tomorrow becomes next week.
And eventually you're staring at a calendar, a stack of receipts, and your phone trying to figure out where you were three months ago.
That frustration is what became MileVault.
I wanted something simple enough that people would actually use it, but powerful enough to keep the kind of records you can feel confident about.
Because mileage isn't just a number on your odometer.
For a salesperson, it might represent the meeting that landed your biggest customer.
For a contractor, it's another trip to the jobsite.
For a realtor, it's another showing.
For a delivery driver, caregiver, consultant, small business owner, tradesman, or anyone else whose vehicle is part of how they make a living, those miles add up.
And when they aren't properly recorded, real money can get left behind.
MileVault was built for the people out there putting miles on their vehicles because they're building something, serving someone, chasing an opportunity, or simply doing what it takes to make a living.
My goal is simple:
Make mileage tracking one less thing you have to worry about.
No digging through months of records.
No guessing.
No complicated system you stop using after two weeks.
Just a better way to capture your miles, organize them, and keep your records where they belong.
Your miles matter. Keep them in the Vault.
Safe travels,
Cody Hixon
Founder, MileVault
Dallas, Texas