Propane Personality: Ben Casper

December 2, 2025 By Brian Richesson 0 Comments

Ben Casper

CEO, Moveit Inc.

Education

Casper attended Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho, initially majoring in music before traveling on a two-year church mission trip to Pennsylvania.

Work Experience

1999-Present

Moveit

CEO

1995-2000

Basin Propane

Owner

1986-2006

Les Schwab Tire Center

Member dealer owner

Note: Before Casper joined with Les Schwab, he had his own tire stores in Utah and Washington.

Introduction to propane

Casper’s first experience with propane came when he started filling 5-gallon bottles as a tire store owner in the 1980s. He later opened his own propane company, covering a wide area of southeastern Washington state. “I enjoyed working with the customers, and propane people are wonderful people,” he says. “The tire business is a cutthroat business, and I guess propane is too. But I never ran into people who were nasty in the propane business.”

Learning through experience

The YankATank – Moveit Inc.’s signature product for the propane industry – was born about 25 years ago from Casper’s personal experience of trying to retrieve a 250-gallon tank from a trailer park on a hot day. “By the time I got it through the gate and out to the truck, I was dead. And I just said, ‘There’s got to be a better way to do this,’” he says. Casper began the journey of inventing the YankATank, a tank cart/dolly that allows users to pull down on a handle and pick up propane tanks (420 verticals and 120, 250 and 330 horizontals).

The YankATank propane tank cart/dolly. (Photo courtesy of Ben Casper)

The inventor

Casper has invented a host of products throughout his life, including for the tire and agricultural industries. He attributes his enjoyment of tinkering and his ability to make things to his early life on a farm, as he’s one of nine children. “We often had to make do with what we had,” he says. “Then with running the tire store, I’m always trying to save a buck, and just with that frame of mind, I’m always trying to come up with new ideas.”

Casper’s life story is documented in his book and a comedy fiction podcast. (Photo courtesy of Ben Casper)

Book and podcast fun

Casper says he’s had many “crazy experiences” throughout his life, as he admits, “I take a lot of risks that I shouldn’t.” Combined with his joy of writing, he decided to publish a 523-page book titled “Recovering Idiot” in 2015. “If people don’t know me, they don’t believe it happened,” he says of his story. His friends tell them otherwise. He also plans to release it as an audiobook. Casper’s personal experiences of getting his YankATank product to market are also documented in a comedy fiction podcast by the same name, from Voyage Media. He says there’s even hope for a movie.

Hobbies

Casper enjoys playing guitar, but a brake press accident in 2015 damaged two fingers on his left hand, so now he’s “getting by on the piano.” He and his wife, Michelle, have six kids and 18 grandkids.