There are several factors that need to come together that will ensure you have a long and happy heavy equipment operator career. The first of these factors is you. How keen are you to really work in this industry? If…
While excavators continue to be used primarily for digging trenches, they still have a variety of uses, even in that task. Excavators can have a wide range of tools fitted and the tasks they can perform range from splitting concrete…
While legislators have been grappling with rules and regulations aimed at making workplaces safer, employers have been busy doing just that. When it comes to heavy equipment, accidents can have a wide range of effects, and from a business point…
If you've worked as a crane operator in the past and you're considering moving back into the profession, you will have to consider many of the changes that have occurred in recent years. One of the biggest changes is that,…
Current and former members of the military can access a range of benefits to help them undertake heavy equipment training for a new career. There are several restrictions on the type of training that can be undertaken. For example, the…
With workplaces rules and regulations constantly changing, employers can find it hard to keep up to date with what is required. Some recent changes include a requirement for all riggers and signalpersons to be assessed as qualified for their roles.…
Some of the best paid heavy equipment operators are those that work in the mining industry. One reason is the sheer isolation of many of these workplaces and, of course, for many there is the inherent danger that comes with…
This is a true story that was related to me recently involving a middle aged man who had grown up on 'the wrong side of the tracks'. He could barely read or write and had spent much of his adult…
What is the biggest fear that many have of summer? It's fire - and with June only weeks old, we have already had wildfires breaking out in a lot of different locations. Heavy equipment operators are often involved in the…
There are some in the community who consider dump truck driving to be less skillful than most other truck driving jobs. There's no doubt that dump truck driving requires slightly different skills, but those skills are important and make dump…