Pile Drivers Earn Piles Of Cash Out On The Rigs
Working on an oil rig can be a tough job. You are miles away from land, from your loved ones, and from the hustle and bustle of city life. What you have is miles of wide open sea, as far…
Heavy Equipment Important To Final Road Conditions
If your travel the highways, back roads, or even the streets around your neighborhood, these roads all have one thing in common. They have been created by heavy equipment from what was once uncleared land to the finely finished surface…
Times Have Changed For Heavy Equipment
Over the last 100 years heavy equipment has slowly evolved from large cumbersome beasts that spent a lot of fuel to move a small amount of dirt to today's machines that are, by comparison, much smaller and yet capable of…
Heavy Equipment – Tracks Or Wheels
The versatility of heavy equipment is generally determined by its ability to move through adverse terrain. Wheels will enable a machine to do some traveling off road but when things get slippery or steep the only machines that will move…
Past Students Talk About Heavy Equipment Training
We have often mentioned the heavy equipment training that ATS Heavy Equipment Training Schools offer. One of the best advertisements for any product comes from the mouths of those who have used a product. Our past students have found the…
Applying For Heavy Equipment Training Is Easy
There are time when you may look at a training program and say 'I wish'. Sometimes it may look daunting, you may feel you don't have the skills or for some, they feel they don't have the high school or…
Heavy Equipment’s Fastest Growing Career
One of the fastest growing heavy equipment careers is that of a class A truck driver. With the cost of fuel soaring, many businesses are turning away from air freight and resorting once more to road freight. You would think…
Heavy Equipment Operator Training, Career, Then What?
Once you get your start in the field of heavy equipment operation you may find that what you are doing is not quite enough. Training is the start of a career and ATS Heavy Equipment Training Schools can help there.…
Heavy Equipment Operators In Non Constuction Industries
Heavy equipment is normally associated with construction and often with just land clearing and road building. There are however many other areas where heavy equipment operators are required. These include farms, forestry, mining and cargo ports. The Department of Labor…
Department Of Labor And Heavy Equipment Training
The Department Of Labor has a good site that provides a lot of information for anyone looking to work in the construction industry. They have a special section for those looking to work with heavy equipment and the training and…