A moving company that operates without trucks filed its first franchise registration in Illinois in September 2026, bringing a labor-only model to the U.S. franchise market at a total entry investment that ranges from $56,500 to $65,500. Two Guys, No Truck, founded in 2015, handles the loading and unloading of customer-rented vehicles and portable storage containers, a service niche that sits between traditional full-service movers and pure do-it-yourself moves.
The company filed its Illinois Initial franchise application on September 1, 2026, dossier 26F683, eleven years after the business was originally established. That gap between founding and franchising reflects a development path common among service-based concepts that grow through local reputation before formalizing a replication model.
Two Guys, No Truck currently operates with established partnerships in Colorado and has structured its expansion strategy around
the origin-and-destination geography of its customers: franchises are intended to open in the markets where clients both begin and complete out-of-state moves.
A Labor-Only Model in a Truck-Heavy Industry
Two Guys, No Truck provides the physical labor of a move without supplying the vehicle. Clients rent their own box truck, trailer, or portable storage container; the franchise crew handles the loading, stacking, and unloading.
The brand also serves remodeling contractors who need furniture relocated during renovation work. Quoting is offered at a flat rate rather than an hourly rate, a pricing model that removes a common point of friction in consumer-facing moving services. The absence of a vehicle fleet eliminates one of the largest capital requirements in traditional moving operations, a factor reflected directly in the low total investment figure.
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Two Guys, No Truck’s total initial investment of $56,500 to $65,500 places it among the lowest-investment franchise opportunities in the home services category. The franchise fee is $49,500, and the ongoing royalty is 7% of revenue. No average unit volume figures are disclosed in the current FDD.
The Investment Structure and What It Covers
The total initial investment of $56,500 to $65,500 covers the franchise fee of $49,500 along with startup costs including equipment, marketing materials, and working capital reserves. The ongoing royalty is 7% of gross revenue. No Item 19 financial performance representation is included in the current Franchise Disclosure Document, meaning no average unit volume or franchisee earnings data is publicly available at this stage.
The brand’s franchise website notes that the Illinois filing reflects the first formal step in a structured expansion, and that additional state filings are part of the planned development schedule.
Home Services Franchising and the Labor-Only Gap
The US moving industry generates more than $19 billion in annual revenue, according to industry research, and has historically been dominated by full-service providers who supply both labor and vehicles. The rise of portable storage container rentals and one-way truck rental services has created a stable and growing segment of customers who prefer to control their own vehicle but need physical help with the heavy lifting.
Labor-only moving has existed as an informal local service for years; the Two Guys, No Truck model is among the first to formalize it as a replicable franchise system. In home services, which is one of the most resilient franchise categories across economic cycles, low capital entry points are consistently among the strongest drivers of franchisee recruitment.
A First Filing and the Road Ahead
The Illinois filing is the brand’s first formal franchise registration and marks the beginning of what the company describes as a staged geographic rollout designed around customer relocation corridors. The expansion model is built on a pairing logic: markets where customers originate a move and markets where they complete it are prioritized simultaneously, so that a franchisee on either end of a relocation route can serve the same customer.
Colorado is currently the only market with active local partnerships, making Illinois the first new market in the formal franchise framework. Prospective franchisees can review the opportunity at franchising.twoguysnotruck.com.
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