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the quick response from carriers in the industry
with just our use of it, we knew we had some-
thing that we could take to the rest of the coun-
try and potentially abroad.”
Jarod Trammell, 1-800-Packouts’ Franchise Ex-
ecutive elaborates: “We had the name and the
number and we used it just for ourselves on a
regional basis because we handle a lot of large
loss claims in the eastern U.S.,” he says. “Once
we started getting these phone calls from these
carriers, adjusters, and different people, asking
us about this name and number that we were
using, we started looking at: ‘Do we branch this
thing across the U.S., or franchise it?’ Of course,
with business being done in different markets
of the U.S. in many different ways, it’s much
easier for people who are already in those mar-
kets and accustomed to how business operates
there, to operate a franchise there. That’s why
we went the franchising route. Now, we have
successfully taken a company and our proven
methods that we used solely for ourselves, and
the same model is now being used across the
United States.We have locations from California
to Maine and we continue to fill in locations in
between.”
“We’re happy to see where we’re at now,” says
Loner. “This is our first endeavor into franchis-
ing, so we’ve taught ourselves virtually every-
thing, as we have gone along.We are now over
40 locations nationwide, and we have eight or
nine more locations in our immediate pipeline