Joe Tuberville and Alan Oversmith
Two Men and a Truck | 205 Hallene Road, Warwick
The pitch: Two Men and a Truck is a full-service moving company offering customers comprehensive home and business relocation, packing and unpacking, storage and junk removal services.
Years in business: 17
Employees: 20
Cost to obtain franchise: $100,000-$585,000 startup costs; $80,000-$150,000 liquid assets; $160,000-$400,000 net worth
Before opening franchise: Oversmith worked in the construction industry as a contractor before he purchased his first location in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 2005. Tuberville was a plant manager for a few years after college before briefly working as a franchise consultant for Two Men and a Truck’s corporate offices.
Reason for opening: Oversmith said there was an opportunity for him and Tuberville to purchase a Boston-area territory, and they always had an interest in starting a new franchise location from scratch. The locations in Michigan that they own had been transferred to them.
“In the Rhode Island market, nobody currently was active in that market [for this franchise]. It was an untouched market with a lot of potential and definitely a need for this service. We just felt like we could fill that need. It made sense for us.” – Alan Oversmith
“When COVID-19 hit, it was extremely stressful, to say the least. The shutdowns clearly had an impact on all businesses, including ours. I think we weathered that storm as well as we could. The biggest challenge we have is staffing, having enough manpower to meet the demands out there in the industry.” – Alan Oversmith