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There is no denying college costs are skyrocketing right now and so some California students
have found an innovative way to support themselves while they study. They are turning muscle
into money. Fox Business reporter, Louise Pennell, introduces us to a growing company
that is called Meathead Movers. There you go.
Twenty-year old, Anthony Morlino, and nineteen-year old, Taylor McNamee have more than just their
love of sports to keep them in shape. The two California students are turning their
muscle into money. They have joined a growing team of student athletes, appropriately called
Meathead Movers. Their speed and strength moving furniture in and out of homes across
Southern California has created a thriving business.
Meathead Movers is like a sport to me and it’s like you’re getting paid to do something
that you love to do, to hang out with your teammates and move some furniture.
Aaron Steed and his brother, Evan, started the company eleven years ago, when they were
both in high school and without a driver’s license.
The client would have to rent the U-Haul truck and they would have to pick us up to bring
us to their home where we would then load and unload their furniture and then after
the job, they’d have to return the rental truck and then drive us back to our parent’s
house. ‘Meathead Movers, this is Landon, how may
I help you?’ Now the brothers have 170 employees, a fleet
of 32 trucks and offices in three southern California locations. And despite rising fuel
prices, moving rates haven’t changed. That’s because the trucks are run using biodiesel
and their drivers are in top shape. Meathead Movers hires strong, clean cut, student
athletes that jog when not carrying anything so literally, we’ll put something into the
truck and then jog back to get more. And you have got to kind of see it to believe it.
And just to make sure the crew stays in shape, the company offers gym memberships to all
full time employees. Working and moving can be a pretty work out
in itself sometimes. The business is the second biggest employer
of students in the city of San Luis Obispo. So for those like Anthony and Taylor, it’s
a job they will keep until graduation. In San Luis Obispo, Louise Pennell, Fox Business
Network. And, how about that? Now, when Aaron and Evan
started this company more than a decade ago, the customary fee for a day’s labor: usually
twenty dollars and a pizza.