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.
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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. For the facility itself, across every fleet, see what a robotaxi depot is.
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.
Why DockDuty: Autonomous doesn’t mean self-sufficient.
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, David Hecht and Darius Hurst. At a DockDuty depot, once one opens, a vehicle will get:
- 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.
The same list, written out as an ongoing service rather than a facility tour, is on our Cybercab fleet management page. If you are still deciding whether an outside operator should be doing any of it, start with what a third-party depot operator is.
The role itself, independent of any vendor, is what the industry calls a robotaxi depot operator; the way DockDuty sells it, a retainer per stall plus a share of ride revenue rather than a lease and a payroll, is sometimes described as depot-as-a-service.
Who this is for
People and businesses who own the vehicle but do not want to run a garage:
- Someone buying one autonomous vehicle 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
Where DockDuty stands · September 2026
Live today. Check any of it yourself: the owner dashboard, running the real product; real vehicle telemetry from connected owner vehicles, in production; the reservation system and live payment processing; the public order book, served by the same API that enforces the cap at checkout; the full owner agreement, rendered and signable before payment; the earnings calculator and the US Robotaxi Map.
Not live: the depot itself. Orlando is our lead market, with its depot targeted for Q4 2026, no lease has been executed, no site is built. No client vehicle is parked, charged or dispatched by DockDuty. No client vehicle is earning, and nobody has fleet-scale Cybercab earnings history, including us. Tesla has not published owner-participation terms, and customer-owned vehicles cannot join Robotaxi today.
We would rather you read that paragraph now than discover it after paying.
What it costs
The founding class of 50 stalls closed on September 5, 2026. What sells now is the Priority 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. Your $450 deposit is refundable at your request at any time before your vehicle is onboarded, with no reason or documentation required. If DockDuty publicly announces it will not open any depot, or ceases operations, outstanding deposits are refunded automatically within 30 days. The Reservation Agreement (§3) governs. To request a refund, email owners@dockduty.com from the email on file. Refunds are initiated within five business 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 can move by CPI-U once a year, on sixty days’ notice, never before your first anniversary, and by an energy adjustment at cost, set each January and July, up or down, never in a depot’s first 12 months.
Where the money sits: Deposits are held at Axos Bank in a separate savings account, kept apart from our operating balance. Owners can request a written confirmation letter. (§2.3) If any company in this category describes how it holds deposits, ask to see it in writing.
How to check us, or anyone else
Run four checks before paying any depot company a dollar, us included:
- 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.
- Read the whole governing agreement before you pay, not a summary afterwards. Ours renders in full in the checkout, before the card field.
- Confirm in writing who holds title. If the answer is not “you, always,” stop.
- 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.
Several of those checks (legal entity, title, deposit terms, published pricing) are run on each company listed in Cybercab and robotaxi management companies, compared, with a source and check date on every row.
Where we operate
Orlando is our lead market, with its depot targeted for Q4 2026. We are planning locations in several more metros at the same time, including depots in Miami and Tampa Bay, and we expand 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. Reserving in another metro holds your place for when a depot there is planned. 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, 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 lead market is Orlando, with a depot targeted for 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 client vehicle is being parked, charged, cleaned or dispatched by DockDuty, and no client 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. 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.
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.
Priority round open · 50 Priority accounts this round · one spot per person or company
When the depot opens, owners drop off the car and get monthly statements.