Two Men And A Truck takes the worry out of moving. How? The fact that by 2005 Two Men And A Truck reached their 2 millionth move and that in 2008 alone 306,724 moves were done should alleviate some of those moving worries.
Two Men And A Truck was started in the 1980’s by two young brothers still in high school, Brig and Jon Sorber, as a way to earn some extra cash. The Two Men And A Truck logo that is so highly recognized today was drawn by their mother to use for advertising in weekly community newspapers. The brothers might have stopped moving when they left for college, but the calls from people looking for movers didn’t. So Mary Sheets, the brothers mom, decided to continue the moving business. She invested $350 into purchasing a 14 foot moving truck and hired a couple movers to continue the business. Mary earned a spot on the 1988 business panel at Michigan State University where a fellow panelist recommended she franchise her business. After talking it over with her lawyer she awarded her first franchise location in 1989. Two Men And A Truck has grown from that small family business to over 200 locations responsible for millions of moves.
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Two Men And A Truck still remembers its small time beginnings and continues to implement the ‘Grandmother Rule’ which means treating everyone like you would want your grandmother to be treated. Two Men And A Truck is built on customer service and continually improves on its training’s. For example, Two Men And A Truck’s headquarters has a two-story house built in it with everything from grand pianos to china cabinets to bulky bedroom sets. This house is used to train franchisees how to properly pack, move, load the truck and do it as efficiently as possible. The house is loaded into a built to scale truck bed with clear sides so trainers can make sure everything is being loaded properly. How’s that for dedication to training! The initial training is 3 months and includes the hands on training, classroom training and detailed assistance all the way through the franchise’s opening.
Two Men And A Truck is the first and largest franchised local moving company and is recognized nationally. The average initial franchise fee is between $37,000 and $72,000 with and average total start-up cost of up to $407,200 which includes facility, trucks, equipment and other expenses. The ongoing royalties are 6% of the gross sales and 1% for advertising. Multiple locations are usually encouraged because once the thorough training’s have been completed its very easy to begin a new location.
Through the owner, Mary Ellen Sheets, Two Men And A Truck has always been very big on community service and charities. From the beginning, when Mary used the entire first years profits of only $1000 and split it up between 10 local charities, to the present where Two Men And A Truck donates 10 cents from every move to the American Cancer Society. The giving nature of Mary Sheets flows through to the rest of Two Men And A Truck’s franchisees where you see charitable actions such as donated moves, time and trucks for coat and toy drives during the holiday seasons and also much needed efforts during times of natural disaster.
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