Construction equipment operators drive, maneuver, or control the heavy machinery used to construct roads, buildings, and other structures.
Heavy equipment careers rise and fall in popularity on a regular basis and it is hard to assess any reasons for this swing. Demand is not really the factor. In fact, demand is created when heavy equipment careers seem to…
If you're looking at a heavy equipment career you have a number of options available to you. These include the area you may wish to specialize in and how you can enter that area of choice. Despite, or perhaps because…
Are you considering a heavy equipment career but not sure about what the future holds, or what to do next? Perhaps we can help. ATS Heavy Equipment Operator Schools is one of the oldest schools in the country with over…
If I was to pick one season that was best for commencing a heavy equipment career it would probably be winter. Demand for heavy equipment operators is at its peak during spring and summer. In the Fall, demand starts to…
Heavy equipment careers are rewarding on many levels. The pay packet of course is one of the first that people look at and heavy equipment operators are fairly well payed when compared to other construction workers. One of the biggest…
When most people talk about heavy equipment careers the mind conjures up images of a bulldozer, grader or perhaps an excavator. They are no doubt the big three when it comes to heavy equipment, but there is a range of…
There are a great many 'home renovators' and amateur 'garden designers' in amongst us and over the years they have gathered together an array of skills. The question is, can they build on those skills for a heavy equipment career?…
Heavy equipment careers are booming with government statistics suggesting that demand for operators will continue through to 2016. Back in 2006 (latest reliable statistics), there were 494,000 heavy equipment operators spread across the nation. The predicted trend was that this…
Our country was built using the skills and labor or migrants. In fact, most of us come from migrants, even you can trace your ancestry back to the first arrivals - they were still migrants. We are still accepting migrants…
The popularity of heavy equipment careers seems to come in waves - this could be an economic led effect or perhaps an effect brought on by publicity when heavy equipment labor shortages appear. We are currently in a situation where…