One of the common myths in our society is that once you reach a certain age, that's it, it is too late to acquire new skills. The reality is that learning is ageless. There are those that enter college in…
If you receive training through accredited training organizations such as ATS Heavy Equipment Training Schools then your qualifications are portable across the nation. The only proviso to that is that you will generally need to acquire licenses from the state…
Okay, so your have put your head down, studied hard and now have the operation of a bulldozer down pat. Now what? Having a bulldozer qualification is great and you will find there are plenty of well paid jobs on…
If you enjoy the outdoors and would like a career working outdoors then you really should look at heavy equipment careers and the prospects in the future. Current trends suggest that demand for heavy equipment operators will continue to outgrow…
Formal training generally leads to a qualification of some description, however not all training is equal. An analogy I like to use is that of a pilot. Do you want to fly in a plane piloted someone who can tell…
Bulldozers have a wide variety of tracks. Except for the small ones you see in the city with rubber pads on their treads, they all rely on the shape of their tracks to keep them moving, to give them manueverability,…
You've heard them before..., "Bulldozers, Graders, Excavators, Backhoes. Words like these conjure up images of toughness and invincibility..., of endurance and cold hard steel. Without seeing it for yourself, you wouldn't guess that massive machines would wear away from moving…
One of the more onorous jobs of running heavy equipment is keeping them clean. I'm not talking about taking it to the car wash or polishing it up in the driveway. I mean the cleaning that is required to keep…
From the "How NOT to do it!" Department: So after a freezing cold, thirteen hundred mile flight in an ancient DC3, I arrived in Echo Bay in the Northwest Territories, 12 miles south of the Arctic Circle. It was my…
From the "How NOT to do it!" Department: When I was young, it was a lot easier to get into running heavy equipment. On-the-job training was the usual way to learn, and even if you had a certificate, no one…