DockDuty is a robotaxi depot company built for private owners.

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 a business, and this is the page that explains ours — including the part where no depot is open yet.

What a robotaxi depot company is

A robotaxi depot company runs the physical ground operation a driverless fleet needs between rides: somewhere to park that is not a public curb, charging, cleaning, damage and lost-property checks, staging toward demand, maintenance coordination, and someone on call when something goes wrong overnight. It is the equivalent of a taxi garage for cars that have no driver to take them home.

It is a different business from fleet-management software. Software schedules and reports. A depot company signs a lease, buys chargers, hires people and physically touches the car. Both exist; only one of them can clean an interior at midnight. If you are weighing the four ways a Cybercab can be run, that comparison lives here: robotaxi fleet management, four models compared.

What DockDuty does

DockDuty is the brand operated by DOCK DUTY LLC, a Florida limited liability company (Florida Division of Corporations document no. L26000247958), founded in 2026 by Jeremy Hecht and David Hecht. At a DockDuty depot, a vehicle gets:

• An assigned stall in a fenced lot — not a shared surface lot, and not the street.
• Charging on site. Electricity is included in the monthly retainer. No separate energy bill, no markup on energy. That is a term of the agreement, not a promotion.
• Cleaning and readiness between rides — interior reset, damage check, lost property.
• Staging — positioning the car where demand is about to be, not where it happened to finish.
• Dispatch coordination. The ride network dispatches the car. We make sure it is charged, clean and available when it does.
• 24-hour incident response for the things that do not respect business hours.
• Maintenance coordination — getting the car to service and back without the owner flying in.
• An owner dashboard — live map, trip history, charging sessions, statements. Open it from anywhere, any hour. It is public; no login required.

Who this is for

People and businesses who own the vehicle but do not want to run a garage:

• Someone buying one autonomous vehicle as an income asset and living somewhere else.
• A small fleet owner with three to ten cars who does not want to lease land and hire staff for them.
• An operator who wants coverage in a metro without building there. If that is you, the page for you is operators and captive fleets.

The size floor is the point. Depot capacity that is already funded and built — the tier serving ride-hailing platforms and commercial fleets — has no product small enough for a private owner. Nobody sells one stall. DockDuty is built to be the retail layer that tier structurally declines to build.

What is live today, and what is not

What it costs

The founding class of 50 stalls closed on September 5, 2026. What sells now is the Priority Owner round: a monthly retainer per stall that drops as the fleet grows, plus a percentage of ride revenue that also drops with fleet size. Current published rates are on the rate card, generated from the same source the checkout uses, so the number on the page and the number you are charged cannot drift apart.

To reserve: a US $450 deposit per stall, credited in full against the one-time $1,000 onboarding fee, leaving a $550 balance due at intake inspection. The agreement caps both: onboarding never exceeds $1,000 per vehicle and the intake balance never exceeds $550. Other than those, the retainer and the ride percentage, no mandatory fees apply.

What you keep

• Title. Always. Section 4.3 of the agreement: the owner retains title to their vehicles at all times, and nothing in the agreement or any service agreement transfers any ownership interest in any vehicle to DockDuty.
• The exit. Month-to-month, no minimum term, no early-termination penalty.
• The deposit, until you are onboarded. Refundable at will, no reason and no documentation required, initiated within five business days. If DockDuty announces it will not open any depot or ceases operations, every outstanding deposit refunds in full automatically within thirty days.
• An exit if we are acquired. On a change of control you may elect a full refund of outstanding deposits within thirty days of notice (§8.4). You are not sold along with the company.
• Your rate. The ride percentage cannot be raised while a vehicle is enrolled. The retainer moves only by CPI-U, once a year, on sixty days’ notice, never before your first anniversary.

One thing we will not overstate: deposits sit in a segregated account maintained solely for owner reservation deposits, separate from operating funds, and we will confirm that in writing on request (§2.3). That is a contractual commitment by DockDuty — it is not third-party escrow with an independent agent holding the money. If a competitor tells you their deposits are “in escrow,” ask them which agent.

How to check us, or anyone else

Run four checks before paying any depot company a dollar, us included:

1. Find the legal entity in a state business registry and confirm the name matches what the contract says. Ours: Dock Duty LLC, Florida, document no. L26000247958.
2. Read the whole governing agreement before you pay, not a summary afterwards. Ours renders in full in the checkout, before the card field.
3. Confirm in writing who holds title. If the answer is not “you, always,” stop.
4. Find out what happens to your money if the depot never opens — the right, the deadline and the mechanism.

We published a longer version of this test as ten checks to run on a robotaxi depot company, written as one of the companies being vetted, including the checks we do not pass cleanly. We would rather you run it than take our word.

Where we operate

Orlando is depot #1, targeted for Q4 2026, and it gates everything after it. The published trigger is that the next depot breaks ground when the current one is roughly 80% reserved and operating, rather than at full saturation. Miami is the named second market, Tampa follows on the same trigger, then beyond Florida as the autonomous-vehicle service area opens in new states.

Reservations are open in every listed metro, and the reservation attaches to the network rather than to one city — you can elect your preferred market and change it later by written notice. That is demand discovery, not a claim that we are building in twenty places at once. The Orlando depot page is the detailed one.

Frequently asked questions

What is a robotaxi depot company?

A robotaxi depot company runs the physical ground operation a driverless fleet needs between rides: somewhere to park that is not a public curb, charging, cleaning, damage and lost-property checks, staging toward demand, maintenance coordination and someone on call when something goes wrong overnight. It is the equivalent of a taxi garage for cars that have no driver to take them home. It is a different business from fleet-management software, which schedules and reports but owns no land, no chargers and no staff.

What does DockDuty do?

DockDuty is a robotaxi depot and fleet-operations company built to support privately owned autonomous vehicles. At a DockDuty depot the vehicle gets an assigned stall, charging with no markup on energy, cleaning and readiness between rides, staging, dispatch coordination, 24-hour incident response and maintenance coordination, and the owner gets a dashboard they can open from anywhere. The owner keeps the title and pays a monthly retainer per stall plus a percentage of ride revenue.

Who is a robotaxi depot for?

People and businesses who own the vehicle but do not want to run a garage. That includes someone buying one autonomous vehicle as an income asset, a small fleet owner with three to ten cars, and an operator who wants coverage in a metro without leasing land there. It is deliberately built for the owner of one car as much as for the owner of fifty — the funded depot tier serves platforms with hundreds of vehicles and has no product small enough for a private owner.

Is DockDuty operating a depot today?

No. DockDuty’s first depot is targeted for Orlando, Florida in Q4 2026. No depot lease has been executed and no site is built. What is live today is the reservation system, live payment processing, the public order book, the published owner agreement and the owner dashboard. No customer vehicle is being parked, charged, cleaned or dispatched by DockDuty, and no customer vehicle is earning.

How do I check whether a robotaxi depot company is legitimate?

Run four checks yourself before paying anyone. Find the legal entity in a state business registry and confirm the name matches. Read the whole governing agreement before you pay, not a summary afterwards. Confirm in writing who holds title to the vehicle. And find out exactly what happens to your money if the depot never opens — the refund right, the deadline and the mechanism. DockDuty published a ten-check version of this test, including the checks it does not pass cleanly.

Is DockDuty affiliated with Tesla?

No. DockDuty is an independent company and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or partnered with Tesla, Inc. “Tesla” and “Cybercab” are trademarks of Tesla, Inc., used 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.

Read the contract first. Then decide.

$450 per stall, fully refundable at will until your vehicle is onboarded, credited in full against the $1,000 onboarding fee. You keep the title. Month-to-month, no early-termination penalty. The whole agreement renders before the card field, not after.

Reserve a stall — $450, refundable See the Orlando depot

Own from anywhere — the car earns at the depot. You do not have to live in Florida, or even in the US.