Delivery
How much should you charge for Turo delivery?
You keep 90 percent of the fee, and that fee has to pay for both drives.
I host out of McKinney. DFW airport is about an hour each way from here, and that is before a flight runs late. The delivery fee is the line that has to pay for those two drives. Turo keeps 10 percent of it on every earnings plan. A fee that looks ordinary on the listing can still lose the round trip.
You keep 90 percent on every plan
Turo's offering-delivery page says you can offer free delivery or set a fee up to the maximum allowed at that location. The fee covers drop-off and pickup. You receive 90 percent of the fee you set, regardless of your host share. The earnings and host share page says the plan percentages do not apply to delivery. You receive 90 percent of the delivery price. The plan percentage applies to the trip price after discounts. That stack is in Turo host fees explained.
Switching plans does not move the delivery line. Pricing the fee off the 70, 80, or 90 plan uses the wrong cut. On the lower plan a fair fee looks too small. On the higher plan a thin fee looks like it almost covers the drive. I'm on the higher earnings plan. In Dallas the share of the trip price still moves with how far ahead the guest booked. Delivery stays at 90 percent. Leave it on its own line. Those dollars paid for the drives, or they didn't.
The fee pays for both drives
Drop-off and pickup are both inside the one number. A fee priced for one direction comes up short before Turo's 10 percent.
Zero is allowed. The offering-delivery page lets you offer free delivery, and it lets you limit that free delivery to trips with a minimum length of two days, three days, four days, five days, six days, one week, or two weeks or more. You keep 90 percent of nothing, and you still drive both ways. A longer minimum only helps if those days were priced with the drive in them.
The same page bans the side charges. You may not charge the guest for the fuel used to deliver the car. You may not ask them to pay the delivery fee outside Turo, or to pay for parking through a third-party link. You may not charge them, or ask Turo to reimburse you, for a parking fee you pay to pick the car up after the trip. If the fee cannot cover those costs, take the location off.
Custom delivery is a radius, not a drive time. Turo measures it as the crow flies, so the road can be longer than the circle you drew. From the northern suburbs a short radius can still be a toll road. If the drive you would actually make does not fit the fee, shorten the radius or turn custom delivery off. You can also offer up to 10 point-of-interest locations, airports, hotels, train stations, and the like. Each one has its own fee, capped at whatever maximum that location allows. The offering-delivery page does not print one national dollar cap. I read it on October 6, 2026. Open Vehicles, then Settings, then Locations, and use the pencil on that vehicle. The highest number the screen will take is the cap.
A round trip from McKinney, assumptions written down
This is a worked example. It is not a trip from my cars. I have not published a delivery fee, including on the Corvette. The only figure from my own hosting is the drive I already use: about an hour each way between McKinney and DFW. Everything else below is assumed so the arithmetic is visible and you can swap your own miles.
Sixty miles round trip, a round figure, not an odometer reading. Seventy-six cents a mile for fuel and wear, the IRS business mileage rate for July 1 through December 31, 2026, used as a stand-in for the car. Two hours at $25 an hour, the hour out and the hour back, with no wait for a late flight. The mileage rate pays for the car. It does not pay for you sitting in it. Leave the time at zero and every airport run looks profitable. If your hour is worth more than $25, the fee goes up. Eight dollars in tolls, an assumption, not a bill from my toll tag.
| Line | Amount |
|---|---|
| 60 miles × $0.76 | $45.60 |
| 2 hours × $25 | $50.00 |
| Tolls, round trip | $8.00 |
| Round trip, before airport parking | $103.60 |
| Fee so 90% covers $103.60 | $116 |
| You keep on that $116 fee | $104.40 |
| You keep on a $40 fee | $36.00 |
$103.60 divided by 0.9 is $115.11 and a fraction. Ninety percent of $115.11 is $103.599, a tenth of a cent short, so the fee that clears the cost starts at $115.12. I would type $116. You keep $104.40, eighty cents over the $103.60, before airport parking.
Turo's DFW host page, which I also read on October 6, 2026, says the airport charges hosts a fee for parking at the approved lots, entry and exit, at the start of the trip and at the end. Turo deducts that fee from host earnings. Hosts may not ask the guest to reimburse it. The page does not print the dollar amount, so this example leaves it blank. Add whatever a real trip deducts. Count that blank as zero and the drive is understated. Love Field needs its own timed drive. These miles are the DFW run.
A $40 fee keeps $36. Against this example the gap is $67.60, and the parking deduction makes it larger. Forty dollars is the figure I used in the fees post to show the 10 percent cut. It still does not pay for an hour each way. If the pencil's maximum is under $116, the screen will not let you charge what this round trip costs. Turn that location off.
When to turn the location off
A late flight is not in the $103.60. If airport delivery is what you are selling, add the wait you actually sit through, then divide by 0.9 again.
Turn custom delivery off when the straight-line radius hides the drive. A guest who picks a pin on the far side of the circle still gets the fee you set for that radius, and you still owe the car at that pin. The offering-delivery page says you may not ask the guest to travel to some other spot, and you may not ask them for a ride home. If the honest meeting point does not work, delete the location.
Turn an airport off when Turo has restricted delivery there. The offering-delivery page says you may not deliver to an airport where restrictions are in place. The same page says you may not set the car's home location, or a custom delivery pin, on airport property. If Turo has a permit there, that pin triggers an airport delivery fee for the guest. Leave that fee on the guest's checkout. The delivery fee you set is a separate line. DFW has a delivery permit. From McKinney the question is whether 90 percent of your fee clears an hour each way plus the parking deduction. The rest of this market is in Hosting on Turo in Dallas–Fort Worth.
Read the coverage line before you treat the run as a booked trip. The offering-delivery page says US hosts receive third-party liability coverage when delivering a vehicle at check-in only. That is liability coverage, and only for the check-in delivery. The pickup is a second drive. I keep a reserve that covers damage responsibility on both cars for trips. Mine is for a claim on a trip. Charge the drive on its own line.
A car that goes out several times a week can justify the hour. A weekend sports car usually can't. On the Corvette, Friday and Saturday are already priced apart from Sunday through Thursday. A Sunday-night airport run sits on a day I priced lower on purpose. I have not published a delivery setting for that car.
Set the fee, then check the day
Time the round trip from your own driveway, at the hour you would actually leave. Write down miles, tolls, an hourly rate you would accept, and the parking deduction if that airport takes one from earnings. Divide by 0.9. A maximum under that number means the location comes off.
Then price the day with the delivery line left out. A booked day under the floor still makes the month worse when the guest also paid you to drive. How to build that floor is in how much you should charge on Turo. The calculator applies your earnings plan to the daily rate, including the Dallas lead-time bands. Leave the delivery fee out of that box. On the receipt, delivery should show at 90 percent on its own line. If that line is under the drive you timed, change the fee or delete the location before the next trip books.
Price the day apart from the drive
Pricing Lab applies your earnings plan to the daily rate, including the Dallas lead-time bands, and shows what you'd keep. Delivery stays on its own line, at 90 percent, because that is how the receipt works. Your first Compare is free. No Turo login.
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Pricing Lab is built by a Turo host and isn't affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Turo Inc. Delivery rules above are from Turo's public help pages as of October 6, 2026 and change. Confirm the current offering-delivery page, the earnings and host share page, and the DFW airport host page before you set a fee or turn a location off. The 76-cent figure is the IRS business mileage rate for July 1 through December 31, 2026, used as a cost stand-in, not as a deduction to claim. This is not tax, insurance, or financial advice. The round-trip example states its assumptions and is not a report of any trip I hosted.