Franchise opportunities · One owner per metro
Own the wholemetro.
VETS is a veteran-founded junk removal, dumpster rental and waste services brand. One franchisee owns an entire metro — residential hauling, roll-off dumpsters, and the commercial and multifamily work our national accounts team already has relationships for.
The business
Boring isthe point.
Junk removal is unglamorous, and that is the advantage. The work is constant, the customers are local, and most of the market is unbranded operators with a truck and a phone number.
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Three ways the same truck earns
Junk removal, dumpster rental, and auxiliary waste work — grounds cleaning, setouts and trashouts, bulk pickups. Different customers, different seasons, one operation.
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Residential and commercial, not one or the other
Homeowners move, renovate and downsize. Property managers have turnover every month. The second kind of work is what makes a week predictable.
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National accounts you do not have to win yourself
VETS holds relationships with multi-site property management groups. When their properties sit in your metro, that work is yours to service.
Transparency
We showevery cost.
Every fee is in the Franchise Disclosure Document, and the investment page reproduces the approved figures rather than summarising them. We also tell you what is hard about this business before you sign, not after.
Promise you a number
Our FDD has no Item 19, so we make no claims about revenue, profit or owner pay — and neither should anyone selling you a franchise without one. Ask every brand you talk to where their numbers come from.
Show you the costs and the hard parts
The full fee schedule, what owners say was hardest in the first ninety days, and direct conversations with the people already doing it.
The founder
Built by an officer,run like a unit.
Zack Willey commissioned as an Army Engineer Officer in 2009 and served eleven years on active duty, from Germany and Afghanistan to an instructor’s post at West Point. He started VETS in Charlotte in 2020 with his own truck and a first customer the week after.
The Charlotte store he built is still the corporate store, and it is the template every franchise territory runs from: the same systems, the same standards, and the same expectation that the owner leads from the front.
- Service
- Army Engineer Officer, eleven years active duty
- Founded
- Charlotte, North Carolina, 2020
- The template
- The Charlotte corporate store
The greatest measure of leadership is creating opportunities for other people to succeed.
Zack Willey, founder, on why VETS franchises at all.
Questions
The questionswe actually get.
The five things franchise development is asked most, answered in full. Nothing here is a teaser for a sales call.
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Do you publish earnings information?
No. The VETS Franchise Disclosure Document does not contain an Item 19 financial performance representation, so we do not publish, imply or discuss revenue, profit or owner pay anywhere — not on this site, and not in a sales conversation. A franchisor may only make financial claims that appear in Item 19 of its FDD. VETS is a young franchise system, and an Item 19 needs the operating history across enough locations to have a reasonable basis; the investment page says where that work stands. Until then, the way to evaluate the business is to read the FDD, talk to existing owners directly, and build your own model from real costs.
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Do I have to be a veteran?
No. VETS was founded by an Army veteran and is led by veterans, and the values come from that. Ownership is open to veterans and to people closely connected to the veteran community — spouses, family, and civilians who share how we operate.
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What is my day-to-day actually like?
Early on you are on the truck. You are quoting jobs, hauling, going to the landfill, and doing the admin at night. As you hire and the routes fill, the job shifts to running crews, holding standards, and winning commercial work. Owners who expect to skip the first stage tend to struggle; owners who expect it and plan for it do not.
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Can I own more than one city?
Territories are sold one metro at a time, and most owners start with one. Additional territories are a conversation once the first is operating well. What rights you have to a market, and what you do not, is defined in Item 12 of the FDD.
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How long has VETS been franchising?
VETS started in Charlotte in 2020 and has been franchising for several years. It is a young system, and that cuts both ways: fewer owners to validate with than a national brand, and more direct access to the people who built it. Item 20 of the FDD lists exactly how many outlets exist.
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.
A person replies, usually within a business day
Not an autoresponder sequence, and not a call centre reading from a script.
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.