Backhoes are one of the most functional pieces of heavy equipment in existence. Sure, there are bigger pieces of equipment out there, but backhoes get a great power to weight ratio and you can take them virtually anywhere. The thing…
Here at Associated Training Services, we do our utmost to get our graduates into rewarding heavy equipment careers; our commitment extends to offering job placement to our graduates. It is not always easy to get a job after completing any…
If you are interested in the idea of a heavy equipment career but not all too interested at the thought of spending most of every day on a construction site; dump trucks are worth considering. Driving dump trucks is a…
Financial aid is something that people need to think carefully about. When it comes to credit and borrowing, there are worthy and unworthy causes. Buying a house is a worthy cause. The value of the land tends to appreciate and…
Getting started in a heavy equipment career is not as difficult as you might think. It is quite easy to get into this exciting and rewarding profession, all it takes is a little knowledge of how the process works and…
We decided to follow up yesterday's article with a few more tractor safety pointers. Yesterday, we focused on ROPS as a means of protecting rollovers and we looked at the importance of surveying the work place before operating a tractor.…
Did you know that the humble tractor is involved in over 800 fatal accidents on United States farms each year? The number of tractor related injuries is even more staggering, 9,000. For a relatively simple piece of heavy equipment to…
We have discussed heavy equipment safety quite frequently on this blog. Each article relating to heavy equipment safety was focused on guidelines for different types of equipment and general workplace safety. Today's heavy equipment safety question is a little different.…
We tend to normally think of excavators digging in preparation for large building projects, but they are also extremely functional in demolitions. Excavators are perhaps the biggest piece of general purpose heavy equipment, assuming of course that you exclude cranes.…
These days there really is not as much need to pull out the graders for small to mid-sized jobs, these are often the domain of bulldozers with laser-guided blades. That does not mean that graders are out of a job,…