A real entity, three named founders, and no depot yet.
Most of what you can check about a company in this category comes back empty. This page is the opposite: the legal entity you can look up, the three people responsible, what is genuinely running today, and the list of things that are not. Read the last one first if you are deciding whether to trust us.
What DockDuty is
DockDuty is a robotaxi depot and fleet-operations company built to support privately owned autonomous vehicles. A driverless car still has every one of a driver’s chores and nobody to do them: somebody has to park it, charge it, clean it, check it for damage and answer the phone at 2am. That work is the business.
DockDuty is the brand operated by DOCK DUTY LLC, a Florida limited liability company, Florida Division of Corporations document number L26000247958. Founded in 2026. Search “Dock Duty”, two words, the way it is filed, on Sunbiz and you will find it. We would rather you look it up than take our word for it, which is also the first of the ten checks we published for vetting companies like ours, including the ones we do not pass cleanly.
Why DockDuty: Vehicles drive themselves. Fleets still need operations.
The founders
Three founders, two of them cousins. All three are named publicly and reachable directly rather than through a support queue.
Jeremy Hecht, Chief Strategy Officer
Jeremy built DockDuty’s owner platform: the dashboard, the reservation and payments flow, the vehicle telemetry pipeline, and this website. He also runs PhaseUp Studio, a software and web development studio, and has operated PhoneBros, a multi-location device repair and retail business in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, for eight years, which is where the multi-location operating experience comes from.
Both of those are separate companies with no ownership or commercial relationship to DockDuty. They are listed here to identify his background, not to imply a group.
David Hecht, Chief Executive Officer
David leads partnerships and depot launch operations. He is a member of IATSE Local 695 with a decade running logistics on professional film productions, scheduling, vendor coordination and rapid problem-solving under time pressure, every day. That is the discipline a floor full of autonomous vehicles will need.
Darius Hurst, Chief Development Officer
Darius leads partnerships, land and investor relations. He works directly with property owners and developers to find the ground a depot needs, from the right parcel to the zoning and the power behind it, and he is the first call for investors and strategic partners.
Where we actually are
The entity is Florida. The lead market is Orlando, Florida. Jeremy and David do not live in Florida: Jeremy is in Berkshire County, Massachusetts and David is in Ventura County, California.
We say that plainly because it would be easy not to, and because it is the same arrangement we sell. DockDuty is an own-from-anywhere platform: the owner can live in another state, or another country, and the car would be based at the depot. Jeremy and David are their own first remote owners, running a Florida operation from Massachusetts and California. A full-time, Orlando-based Dock Manager will run the floor day to day, the role is posted and has not been filled, and the founders will be on site in Orlando regularly from opening.
A founder living in Massachusetts does not make this a Massachusetts company. The entity, the depot and the operations are Florida. Orlando is our lead market, with its depot targeted for Q4 2026, and we are planning locations in several more metros at the same time, including depots in Miami and Tampa Bay, with no site, lease or date yet.
What is live today
Every item here is something you can check yourself, right now, without talking to us:
- The owner platform. A real dashboard in production. The demo is public: no login, no card, no form. Live map, trip history, charging sessions, statements, document glovebox, remote vehicle commands.
- Connected-vehicle telemetry, streaming into that dashboard in production today, from owner vehicles.
- Reservations and payments. Live payment processing. Real money moves.
- A public, auditable order book. The count is served by the same API that enforces the cap at checkout, so it is a fact rather than a marketing number. It can go down as well as up, because deposits are refundable.
- A published owner agreement, rendered and signable before payment. Fee caps, refund rights, title retention and the Tesla dependency are in the document, not in a summary of it.
- Free tools we do not gate: the earnings calculator and the US Robotaxi Map, with CSV and JSON downloads.
What is not
This is the part that matters, and it is why this page exists.
- No depot is operating. Orlando is our lead market, with its depot targeted for Q4 2026. No depot lease has been executed. No site is built.
- No client vehicle is in our care. Nothing is being parked, charged, cleaned or dispatched by us today.
- No client Cybercab is earning. Nobody anywhere has fleet-scale Cybercab earnings history, including us. Every figure on this site is a labelled projection.
- Our own facility insurance is not bound. Garage-keeper and general liability coverage are intended to be bound before the depot takes in any vehicle. There is no depot yet, so none of it is in force. The owner carries the policy on the vehicle in every scenario.
- Where deposits are held. Deposits are held at Axos Bank in a separate savings account, kept apart from our operating balance. Owners can request a written confirmation letter. That is the whole claim, and we describe it no other way.
- Tesla’s owner program does not exist yet. Customer-owned vehicles cannot join Robotaxi today. Eligibility, economics, insurance and timing are unpublished. Everything we project assumes that program launches on workable terms.
We are not affiliated with Tesla
DockDuty is an independent company. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or partnered with Tesla, Inc.; “Tesla” and “Cybercab” are trademarks of Tesla, Inc., used here for descriptive reference only. We hold no Tesla vehicle allocation, no enrollment right and no commercial agreement of any kind, and we claim none.
Tesla is simultaneously our supplier, the network our owners’ cars would earn on, and a potential competitor. We disclose that dependency inside the owner contract, not only on the website.
How we make money
A monthly retainer per stall plus a percentage of ride revenue, both dropping as a fleet grows. That is the whole model. Current rates are on the rate card, generated from the same source the checkout reads, so the published number and the charged number cannot drift apart.
We do not sell vehicles. We do not take an ownership interest in one. We do not publish a yield, an IRR or an expected return, and we are not going to. Nobody can honestly tell you what a Cybercab will earn, and the ones who try are the reason this category needs a vetting checklist. What we do instead is be specific about the protections we put in writing.
Why Orlando, and why Florida
Florida’s autonomous-vehicle statutes place no ownership restriction on who may own a self-driving vehicle, and Fla. Stat. § 316.85 makes the automated driving system itself the operator. Driverless Teslas have carried paying passengers in Orlando since July 21, 2026, so the demand side is demonstrated rather than assumed. Orlando also has the land, the schedulable power and the tourism-driven ride density a depot needs. The long version: why Florida became robotaxi country.
How to reach us
support@dockduty.com reaches a founder directly. The Discord is where we answer questions in public, before anyone reserves anything. Jeremy and David both post there. Journalists: the press kit has logos, bios and brand colours. Fleet operators and captive fleets: start here. Landowners, ride networks, vehicle makers and infrastructure partners: what DockDuty does and where it stands. Creators who cover robotaxis on YouTube, X or podcasts can apply to the DockDuty creator program.
How we research, source and correct what we publish is written down in our editorial policy, including what we will not publish.
Frequently asked questions
Who is behind DockDuty?
Three founders. Jeremy Hecht, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, built the owner dashboard, the reservation and payments flow, the telemetry pipeline and the website; he has also run PhoneBros, a multi-location device repair business in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, for eight years. David Hecht, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, is a member of IATSE Local 695 with a decade running logistics on professional film productions. Darius Hurst, founder and Chief Development Officer, leads partnerships, land and investor relations. Jeremy and David are cousins. All three are named publicly and reachable directly rather than through a support queue.
Is DockDuty a real registered company?
Yes. DockDuty is the brand operated by DOCK DUTY LLC, a Florida limited liability company, Florida Division of Corporations document number L26000247958. It is searchable on Sunbiz as “Dock Duty”, two words, which is how the name is filed. Do not take our word for it; look it up.
Where is DockDuty based?
The company is a Florida entity and its lead market is Orlando, Florida. Jeremy Hecht and David Hecht do not live in Florida: Jeremy is in Berkshire County, Massachusetts and David is in Ventura County, California. They run it remotely on purpose. It is the same location-independent arrangement DockDuty sells to owners. A full-time Orlando-based Dock Manager is posted and unfilled, and the founders will be on site regularly from opening.
Is DockDuty operating a depot?
No. Orlando is our lead market, with its depot targeted for Q4 2026, and no depot lease has been executed anywhere. What is live today is the owner dashboard, connected-vehicle telemetry in production, the reservation system and live payment processing, a public order book served by the API that enforces the cap, and the full owner agreement rendered before payment. No client vehicle is in DockDuty’s care and no client Cybercab is earning.
Is DockDuty affiliated with Tesla?
No. DockDuty is an independent company. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or partnered with Tesla, Inc.; “Tesla” and “Cybercab” are trademarks of Tesla, Inc., used here for descriptive reference only. DockDuty holds no Tesla vehicle allocation, no enrollment right and no commercial agreement of any kind with Tesla, and claims none.
Check us before you trust us. We wrote the checklist.
Look up the entity. Read the whole agreement before you pay, not a summary after. Confirm in writing who holds title. Find out what happens to your money if the depot never opens. Four checks, ten minutes.
$450 per stall when you are ready, fully refundable at will until your vehicle is onboarded.