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The Junkluggers and VETS,item by item.

The Junkluggers franchise cost and fees next to VETS, from each brand's current FDD by item. A donation-and-resale model compared with junk plus dumpsters.

Key takeaways

  • The Junkluggers builds its model around donating and reselling what it hauls. That is a real operational difference, not a slogan, and it changes the work.

  • VETS diverts what it can too, but its model is built around one owner per metro running junk removal, dumpsters and commercial waste together.

  • Every figure here is from the brand's own FDD, by item, or it is marked as not yet read.

The Junkluggers is a junk removal franchise, part of the Authority Brands family, that leads with donation and resale of what it collects. This page compares its franchise cost and fees with VETS's, each from the brand's own current Franchise Disclosure Document by item, and is honest about the fact that a donation-led model is a different day-to-day from a junk-and-dumpsters one.

The numbers, by FDD item

Figures come only from each brand's current Franchise Disclosure Document, cited by item. A cell reading “See current FDD ↓” means the brand's current FDD has not been reviewed for that figure: the lookup block below says where to read it.
What the FDD says VETS The Junkluggers
Initial franchise fee Item 5 In the FDD ↗ See current FDD ↓
Total initial investment Item 7 $62,100–$178,420 See current FDD ↓
Royalty Item 6 In the FDD ↗ See current FDD ↓
Brand or marketing fund Item 6 In the FDD ↗ See current FDD ↓
Technology and other recurring fees Item 6 In the FDD ↗ See current FDD ↓
Territory model Item 12 One owner per metro area, as defined in Item 12 See current FDD ↓
Services offered Item 1 Junk removal, dumpster rental, and commercial and multifamily waste services See current FDD ↓
Veteran incentives Items 5 and 6 See the veterans page ↗ See current FDD ↓
Franchised units open Item 20 4 (2025) See current FDD ↓
Financial performance representation Item 19 No Item 19 — VETS publishes no earnings information See current FDD ↓
FDD issuance date Cover page In the FDD ↗ See current FDD ↓
  1. VETS: its current Franchise Disclosure Document, every figure a reviewed claim. Every line of the investment.
  2. The Junkluggers: current FDD not yet reviewed — see the lookup block below.

Why owners choose VETS over The Junkluggers

These are the reasons owners who compared a donation-led model with VETS chose VETS.

  • Three service lines from one fleet. Junk removal, dumpster rental, and commercial and multifamily waste services: more ways to put the same trucks and crews to work, across different customers and seasons.
  • Recurring commercial work, not only one-off jobs. Property managers turn units over every month; that second kind of work is what makes a week predictable.
  • One owner, the whole metro. A VETS franchise is an entire metro area as defined in Item 12, with no carved-up sub-territories and no second VETS branch competing for the same jobs.
  • National accounts you do not have to win yourself. VETS holds relationships with multi-site property management groups, and the work in your metro is assigned as set out in the FDD.
  • CentCom behind you. The corporate support team runs national accounts, receivables, the technology platform and training, and stays on the line after opening. Item 11 of the FDD sets out exactly what VETS provides.

Questions to ask both brands

  1. How does the donation or disposal process work on an ordinary job, step by step?
  2. What equipment, storage and partners does Item 7 assume, and what does it leave out?
  3. What is the territory in Item 12?
  4. How many owners left in the last three years, and may I call them?

Review The Junkluggers's FDD yourself

Every franchisor gives you its Franchise Disclosure Document during its own sales process, and by law you have at least fourteen days with it before you sign or pay anything. The current document is also on file, free, in the state databases below.

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Questions people ask

Is The Junkluggers an eco-friendly franchise?

Its model is built around donation and resale, which is a substantive difference from haul-and-dispose. What the brand claims about diversion is on its own site and in its FDD; the eco-friendly comparison page looks at how several brands describe this.

Sources

  1. The Junkluggers franchise site — retrieved 2026-09-25
  2. FTC Franchise Rule, 16 CFR Part 436 — retrieved 2026-09-25

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