ATS offers a variety of skills-oriented training programs in Heavy Equipment Operation, Crane Operations, Horizontal Directional Drill Operations, Truck Driving, and Rigging.
If you take a lot of pride in your work then a career as a grader operator could be ideal. Of course, you need to like working outdoors and working as part of team. As you drive around your neighborhood,…
Road graders have long been a bastion of male dominance. While women have found their way into truck driving and bulldozer operations, they haven't shown much interest in graders. That, however, seems to be changing quite quickly. In fact, women…
Step into the cab of a modern grader and you will wonder if it is a piece of heavy equipment, or a well designed office. Compare modern graders from those of twenty years ago. The outside working components have only…
One of the things you will notice about graders is that they tend to work on their own. This can be a little misleading because graders are really just one part of a large team - a very integral part…
Graders - they're weird looking beasts yet they perform a role that is vital to the success of any road building program. If you were to closely examine a grader its design would probably confound you. They are long and…
Perhaps it's true - you can't have beauty and brains! I know some people would argue with me when I say that road graders are not exactly the prettiest of machines - I guess it is all in the eyes…
Graders are perhaps the gentle giants of the heavy equipment industry. It's not brute strength that gets the job done with a grader; it's finesse. Their role is to do the final sculpting of a surface, particularly when it comes…
It may be March and spring may be in the air but try telling that to the residents of Homer in Alaska. They had to call on every grader in the area to help clear out several feet of snow…
Grader operators are amongst the best paid when it comes to heavy equipment operators. Their average pay checks are ahead of excavator operators with bulldozer operators coming in third. All three work in positions that demand a high level of…
Some people love them, some people hate them, but without a doubt our highways make traveling long distances quicker and easier. Every single highway had, at some stage, a grader or two working to prepare the way for the seal.…