In this episode of Jimmy Talks Construction, Jimmy sits down with Brenton Davey, Managing Director of Control Tech Solutions, to unpack a no-BS story of how a business scales from shovels and a trailer to running vacuum excavation trucks on major projects.

Brenton explains how working in NBN fibre rollout led to his first opportunity, why new safety requirements pushed the industry toward NDD / vacuum excavation, and the moment unreliable subcontract trucks forced a make-or-break decision: buy the first vac truck or stop moving forward.

This episode dives into the real stuff construction business owners deal with:

• Buying equipment before you have work lined up (and the panic that comes with it)
• The truth about equipment finance and why “just sell it” isn’t a real exit plan
• Scaling into bigger p ...