It started with an initial $350 investment for one truck. 20 years later Mary Ellen Sheets has grown Two Men and a Truck into an international franchise corporation with 200 offices in 31 states and Canada and Ireland, and nearly $200 million in revenue.
Now dubbed the nation’s largest independently-owned business and residential 
moving company, the Capital region’s own company has been ranked number one in the “Moving Services” category of Entrepreneur magazine’s list of top franchise opportunities in 2009.
It’s the second consecutive year the company has claimed the top spot in the moving services category of the “Franchise 500”—and the 17th successive year it has appeared in the magazine’s rankings, says Brig Sorber, the company’s president, and one of Sheets’ sons who is leading the company.
The list results from performance rankings in areas including financial strength and stability, growth rate, and system size. The company also ranked 212th among the magazine’s top 500 franchise opportunities.
In 2008, the company ranked “Highest in Customer Satisfaction with Full Service Moving Companies” by J. D. Power and Associates.
Meanwhile, three employees have recently received professional certification from the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITTL): Norine Bardo, service center specialist; and Steve Pinkos, business applications specialist; and Scott Auge, infrastructure team leader. Bardo lives in Lansing, Pinkos in Holt, and Auge in Laingsburg.
Gretchen Cochran, Innovation & Jobs editor, may be reached here.
All Photographs © Dave Trumpie
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