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The model

Not just a truckand a logo.

What a VETS owner runs, who pays for it, and how the week actually fills up.

What a VETS owner runs

A VETS franchisee runs one metro and sells three related services from the same fleet: junk removal, dumpster rental, and auxiliary waste work. The mix is what makes the week predictable — residential hauling is seasonal and weather-dependent, commercial and multifamily work is not.

Service lines
Three, one fleet
Owners per metro
One, no overlap
Customer types
Residential and commercial

Three service lines,one operation.

The same trucks, the same dispatch and the same crews carry all three. Each line reaches a customer the others miss, which is why one owner runs every line in the metro.

Three service lines feeding one operation Junk removal, dumpster rental and auxiliary waste services all run from one fleet of trucks and crews, inside a single metro owned by one franchisee. Junk removal Priced by volume Dumpster rental Dropped, then collected Auxiliary waste Scheduled, recurring Shared One fleet Same trucks, same crews Territory One metro One owner, no overlap Three service lines feeding one operation Junk removal, dumpster rental and auxiliary waste services all run from one fleet of trucks and crews, inside a single metro owned by one franchisee. Junk removal Priced by volume Dumpster rental Dropped, then collected Auxiliary waste Scheduled, recurring Shared One fleet Same trucks, same crews Territory One metro One owner, no overlap
How the work is arranged, not how much of it there is. This diagram shows no volumes, no share of the week and no figures of any kind, and the movement is illustrative rather than a rate or a sequence anything actually follows.

  • Junk removal

    Crews load and haul: garage and estate cleanouts, furniture and appliances, renovation debris. Priced by volume, sold on the spot.

  • Dumpster rental

    Roll-off containers dropped and collected. Less labour per dollar than hauling, and it reaches customers who want to load it themselves.

  • Auxiliary waste services

    Grounds cleaning, setouts and lockouts, trashouts, bulk item pickup. This is the recurring work property managers need every month.

Two kindsof customer.

They behave completely differently, and a business built on only one of them is a harder business.

Two kinds of customer, two kinds of schedule Residential jobs are shown as irregularly spaced marks along a timeline, arriving in clusters with gaps between them. Commercial and multifamily jobs are shown as evenly spaced blocks repeating along the same timeline. No quantities are shown. Across a year Residential One job at a time Commercial The same job every month Two kinds of customer, two kinds of schedule Residential jobs are shown as irregularly spaced marks along a timeline, arriving in clusters with gaps between them. Commercial and multifamily jobs are shown as evenly spaced blocks repeating along the same timeline. No quantities are shown. Across a year Residential One job at a time Commercial The same job every month
Spacing only. The vertical axis carries nothing, the marks are not counts, and this is not drawn from data or offered as a forecast. It shows that one kind of work is booked and repeats while the other does not.
Residential

One job at a time

Homeowners moving, renovating, downsizing or clearing an estate. Higher price per job, won on responsiveness and how the crew behaves in someone else’s house. Demand tracks the housing market and the seasons.

Commercial & multifamily

The same job every month

Property managers, apartment communities, hotels and events. Lower price per job, but it repeats, it is scheduled, and it fills the days residential does not. It is also where the national accounts program matters.

You are notbuying a job.

The end goal is a business with crews, systems and enterprise value — something you could eventually step back from or sell. That takes hiring, and hiring is the part most new owners say was hardest. We would rather you hear that now than in month eight.

From working in the business to running it Three stages shown as rising steps. First, the owner is on the truck doing the work. Then the owner is running crews: hiring, holding standards and selling. Finally the owner is running the business itself, with managers running the crews. No timescale is shown. Your job changes. How fast is up to you. Stage one On the truck You are the crew Stage two Running crews Hiring, standards, selling Stage three Running the business Managers run the crews From working in the business to running it Three stages shown as rising steps. First, the owner is on the truck doing the work. Then the owner is running crews: hiring, holding standards and selling. Finally the owner is running the business itself, with managers running the crews. No timescale is shown. Your job changes. How fast is up to you. Stage three Running the business Managers run the crews Stage two Running crews Hiring, standards, selling Stage one On the truck You are the crew
There is no timescale on this on purpose. How quickly an owner moves between stages depends on them, on hiring, and on the market, and we will not imply otherwise. Plenty of owners spend a long time at stage one, and hiring is the part they tell us was hardest.

What the first year actually looks like

Next step

Let us talkabout your market.

Tell us where you are looking. We will tell you straight whether the metro is open, what it would take, and whether we think it is a fit.

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Fourteen days with the FDD, minimum

Federal law gives you at least that long before anything can be signed. We treat it as a floor, not a target.

We will tell you if it is not a fit

Both directions. We are deciding too, and we would rather say so early than waste a year of yours.

PENDING COUNSEL. This is not an offer to sell a franchise. An offer is made only by a Franchise Disclosure Document, and only in states where VETS is registered or exempt.