Like so many others before him in the TWO MEN AND A TRUCK® family, Jared Button’s story started with him looking for a job and joining the team as a driver in Canton, Ohio.
This was in 2016 and Button joined the local franchise to help move customers forward while at the same time the brand – and the job – started to grow on him. Day by day, he became more invested in what was happening and it became less of a job and started to feel more like a career.
“I kind of fell in love with the brand and what they have to offer here,” Button said.
That was where it all started, and it has grown into something much, much more for Button and his family.
“There was a lot of talk about opportunity and advancement opportunities, so I kind of stuck with it,” Button said in an interview with 1851 magazine. “As things continued to play out, I had an opportunity to move to Maryland to start up one of our locations out there, and that transpired into me moving to Dayton, Ohio where I worked at another location. After that, I came back to Canton, and then ended up opening my first location in Mansfield.”
Despite being just 30-years-old at the time, Button officially opened the Mansfield location in March of 2022 and started his franchising journey within the TWO MEN AND A TRUCK brand. He’s also part owner of the Canton, Ohio location now, and has already established himself as a rising success in our franchising network.
It wasn’t necessarily a path he set out for when he originally joined on as a driver, but after frontline moving experience within the brand and finding out what it stood for, he became committed to TWO MEN AND A TRUCK and capitalized when the right opportunities presented themselves.
“The opportunity I was given to be a part of it just kind of fell in place for me,” Button said. “It wasn’t really something I searched for, and I wasn’t necessarily trying to be a franchisee, but everything seemed right at the time, and it seemed like the right decision for me. It’s been a great journey.”
While he didn’t have prior franchising experience outside of what he had learned from the franchises where he worked, he was able to hit the ground running due to the quality of the TWO MEN AND A TRUCK franchising network and the support he received from all levels within the company.
“I think with franchising and being a franchisee – especially with TWO MEN AND A TRUCK – we have a great team at the Michigan Support Center who supports us and backs us, so we always have that assistance there whenever you’re starting up,” Button said. “It gives you a leg up to have that brand name in TWO MEN AND A TRUCK, especially in this area. It’s a household name. That was really enticing to me.”
He’s not even a full year into the franchising experience, but Button already has his eyes set on future growth – both for the Mansfield location, and for potentially opening more locations in the future.
Presently, he’s working on building a culture that helped him fall in love with TWO MEN AND A TRUCK at his own location, and building a name within the community for additional awareness on services they provide in addition to community engagement and charitable work.
“The culture and the community that we’ve built here at TWO MEN AND A TRUCK has always stuck out to me,” Button said. “We consider everyone employed here as part of our family, and that’s the way we treat everybody. That’s the way I was treated when I came in, and that’s what I continue to put forth with my team here. It’s something that’s hard to come by in other jobs, and it means a lot to me.”
