How a Single Mother's Grit Built One of the World's Largest Moving Companies
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, in the early 1980s, Brig and Jon Sorber, then high school students in Lansing, Michigan, started a local moving service using an old, beat-up pickup truck. They called it Two Men and a Truck—and their mom drew the original stick-figure logo. When the boys left for college, she took over the business, incorporated it, and—using the meager $350 profit from its first year—laid the foundation for one of the world's largest moving companies. Brig himself shares the remarkable story.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:14.1 | This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, |
| 0:18.5 | the show where America is the star and the American people. |
| 0:22.7 | Up next, a story from Briggs Sorber, part of the founding family of Michigan's own |
| 0:28.0 | two men in a truck moving company. Let's get into the story. Here's Brigg. |
| 0:36.6 | My first job was raking leaves when I was eight. |
| 0:42.3 | I knocked on the door and these two guys open the door and they're looking at me. |
| 0:48.3 | They go, what do you want? |
| 0:50.3 | I said, can I rake your front yard for a dollar? |
| 0:54.7 | He goes, yeah, go ahead. I was just jacked. I was going to make a dollar. This is my first job. |
| 1:01.0 | And these guys, I had a car, backed in, and they were moving stuff out of the house. |
| 1:07.0 | And then they took off and said they'd be back. And I said, okay, so I kept raking leaves. And this another car pulls up. |
| 1:12.6 | He looks in his house, comes running out, and he goes, |
| 1:14.6 | Who the hell are you? |
| 1:16.6 | And I go, I'm raking your leaves. |
| 1:20.6 | The guy said I can rake the leaves. |
| 1:22.6 | What guy said he could rake the leaves? |
| 1:23.6 | And I went, the guy that was moving stuff out of your house. |
| 1:30.7 | He was being robbed, and I didn't know it. |
| 1:35.0 | And so the cops came, and they were asking me questions. |
| 1:36.3 | I'm going, what is going on? |
| 1:42.4 | Well, then the cops left, took the report, and then I finished, and I knocked on the door. |
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