40% Growth in Year 1 of a Paving Business

Yes.

The others were the, this clever. Filling your calendar on days when there was base work, putting the other guys onto other jobs. Non base work.

So keeping everybody working and, and increasing revenue and having two kind of simultaneous crews. The, and then a lot of efficiencies.

Right.

Tablets in the field. You didn't mention it here but you did on our pre call slack going to the site before the, all the, the crews get there to make sure everything is, is where it needs to be. Confirming the prepping, etc.

Yeah. This, this trajectory, this 40% growth in the first year, do you think that that continues into 2026? No. Or is this all sort of one, one, one off, low hanging fruit?

I mean we're certainly getting solicited for just as much work as we ever have. That, that hasn't dried up at all. I would say with the amount of personnel we have, we're, we're as far as the surf work that we can self perform, we're pretty maxed out.

We're at the, the point where we probably have to go to two full paving crews if we want to continue on that trajectory. That's really the only way. I mean we've used the people we have and the hours we have in the year. We max that out, you know, so if we were going to.

You're at capacity. You're totally at capacity. Yeah, close to.

Yeah, yeah, we have, but we, you know, I've been slowly piecing on, you know, equipment and people. We're a little heavy right now, especially since this is our slow season where we are, we are prepped to this year and that's one of our goals to have two simultaneous paving crews. Um, and that would be specifically running, operating the paver in two different sites at the same time.

So actually, let's just, let's just walk through that, talk through that. First of all, when you say the paver, you mean that big machine that we've all seen that is basically with like a, a big drum that's rolling down, that's like compressing the asphalt, Right?