Entrepreneurial Beginnings: From Mechanic to Business Owner

okay so you if I understood this right though Derrick you started in a garage as a diesel mechanic well I started out of high school as a diesel mechanic I went to work for a company called MP next level started there right out of high ceiling mechanic and then the last eight years I was there I became their their shop manager and I started cmp when I was working at MP next level so you got some tools and attachments over here so but this story you started as a shot mechanic a highway or just a basically a diesel mechanic how did you transition to run it well you got what twelve guys we got fourteen guys now fourteen guys okay two of them are gone today but I don't know I've always managed people and I've been really good at it and one of the things that I always like does ever since I was a little kid I love building stuff you know I like like this stuff over yeah like this we have the patent on or hide your bucket look in a good unit actually this is my model and it's actually one of the first models that we ever built yeah it's a great tool when I was that MMP we did a lot of restoration and we hated the skid loaders because you had to have a bucket and he had a soil conditioner and you had to switch back and forth so we used a lot of times we used the tractors and we had all this [Music] doubling up on equipment and that's where I came up with this so we built I built my first one out of my garage and that's how it started was actually this unit how much what do you have in gross sales per year now we're gonna be just under 4 million this year 4 million okay so in 13 years you've been doing this for 13 years been doing it 13 years been doing it full-time for six okay and then