ATS offers a variety of skills-oriented training programs in Heavy Equipment Operation, Crane Operations, Horizontal Directional Drill Operations, Truck Driving, and Rigging.
There are a lot places where you wouldn't expect to find a bulldozer. Bulldozers come a variety of shapes and sizes and range from giants that work in the mining industry to babies that work in factories. These little bulldozers…
Where bulldozers rely on brute strength to push dirt around, motor graders rely in finesse to finely 'grade' as surface. Motor graders truly are the fine artists in the heavy equipment family. Bulldozers are short stout muscle men. Motor graders…
Tough guys don't sleep and they don't doze either, especially on a construction site. The dozer, or more correctly, the bulldozer, is one of the tough guys on site. They are renown for their strength and their ability to shift…
One of Heavy Equipment's largest machines is the dragline excavator. This equipment is used in both civil engineering and surface mining. Smaller types are often used in road and port construction, particularly if an old piece of road needs tearing…
Most people view bulldozers as dirt pushers, and they are right. Essentially, that is all they are. They have a lot muscle and heavy blade and their role in life is to 'push dirt' and lots of it. What most…
Bobcats, you see them everywhere these days. The bobcat is generally considered to be a landscape gardeners tool of choice when it comes to digging, moving soil and moving heavy plants. Although they are small in size, could they still…
Heavy equipment comes in all shapes and sizes. The bigger pieces of equipment can really pack some punch. A bulldozer is capable of pushing large amounts of material around. The grader can also push huge amounts of dirt around. So,…
The height of summer and fortunately there haven't been too many serious fires as yet. One of the most exciting and most dangerous jobs that a bulldozer operator can experience is as a wildfire fighter. Bulldozer are an important part…
What sort of person are you? Do you like being the person to put the finishing touches on a job? Perhaps your the kind of person who is technical and works to measurements, angles and depths? Or are you the…
Some bulldozers are quite small and are great for landscaping and other small jobs such as finishing work. There are other bulldozers that are huge - generally used in open cut mines and forestry. These machines are equipped to push…