"I think people can recognize that it's a tough way to run any business, when from year to year you are not certain about what kind of revenue is coming in to sustain the running of the business, how many people you can keep on the payroll," said Mike Sturino, president and CEO of the Illinois Road and Transportation Builders Association. "What that really leads us to is a boom-and-bust cycle, and that is an inefficient and more wasteful way of doing it."