40% Growth in Year 1 of a Paving Business

I think they're, they don't want to deal with it. They don't want to deal with it. Right. They don't want to provide the management.

And I would say even on the jobs that we did, I would pick and choose. Mostly these were jobs that were somehow restricted. So they were either most of them were on a military base.

Not just your, your standard 10%. If we were going to sub out something complimentary.

Great. That, that was helpful. That. So. So in a non base environment, non base work, the 10% that you earn subbing out just may not be worth the juice. May not be worth the squeeze in a lot of cases because that 10 isn't free.

You've got to manage it. And so there's, there's work there. Okay, great. That was clear. But back to this base work that is actually a big feature too.

I think maybe you're about to get there. So I don't mean to steal your thunder but, but I haven't heard you mention it yet and I recall it being a big deal overall. Yeah.

So, you know, obviously we're in an area of the country where there's, there's bases all over the place and you know, they need asphalt just like anyone else. So we're fortunate that we, we don't typically perform work as the prime for any of them, but through our relationships with GCs, we end up working on almost all of them.

So typically the GC will have a start to finish project and you know, when it comes time to do the asphalt, you know, a lot of times we're were part of that. So I would seek out the subcontracting opportunities for the complimentary industries when it was like base restricted, you know, because we could. But our normal paving, we were already involved in that.

Okay. Those operations were already taking place on base before I was here.

And the fact that you are a veteran and there's this base work and there's restricted access as you mentioned. Did that give you any advantage or since the business was already in there, didn't.

Yeah.