When most people think of excavators they think of digging and preparing for a very large building project. Did you know that excavators are also involved in many demolitions? Excavators are probably the biggest piece of all around general purpose heavy equipment, besides cranes. The sheer mobility and size of these pieces of equipment makes them so incredibly necessary for demolitions.

When people think of demolitions, they think of using brute force. That is their image of demolitions. The truth is that force is used in a skilled and meticulous way. The process of demolition may involve a certain amount of crushing, blowing and smashing, but there is a very precise process to that. Things have to be calculated and measured. Blows and smashes have to be calculated to the smallest detail in order to give maximum benefit. Excavators are going to be the perfect peice of equipment for your demolition projects. For example, if you’re bringing down a building, then you’ll need them to help you have a large amount of power to get that project done.

Excavators can be used in almost all aspects of your demolition projects. If you’re dealing large buildings, the process can be a little less forceful thn larger ones. You can still put excavators to use in those smaller projects.

If you’re interested in finding out more information on the role of excavators and how you can benefit from them give us a call or write to us. Excavators are only one piece of machinery that can benefit you. Contact us today (800-383-7364) to find out more about excavators.

Job placement is going to be very important during and after your school certification. In some areas of the country, and in some industries, you may find that there seems to be some competition in getting the good jobs. If you live in a small town or in a rural area, then there may not be that many openings available for you.

Our job placement programs help you find a job as quickly as possible. Many have even found a position in their chosen industry while still attending classes and school. You may find that if you are living in a small area, that seeking a position in a bigger city may give you more opportunities.

The secret to successful job placement

While many wait until they have graduated or finished their schooling, the secret to successful job placement is starting early. Getting started as early as your first few weeks of enrollment is of maximum effect. You want to let as many companies and employers know as early as possible that you are a skilled professional. Don’t wait until you’ve completed all the course work. Start searching for on the job training. Often, employers may not want to hire someone with years of experience in the field. They may not be able to afford to pay someone with 10 or 20 years of experience and certification. They may be looking for a complete newbie that knows just enough to get the job done.

100 % Guaranteed Job Placement Starts With You

With the skills you gain from us, you could start your own business. Whether you’re working with loaders, tractors, trucks or heavy equipment operations, you have the chance to run and operate your own service business. In this way, you’ve got 100% job placement, since you will be hiring yourself to work for yourself.

By running your own business, you can also have more control over your earnings and your schedule. Of course, there are some disadvantages, like having to build a customer base that keeps coming back to you. You may be entering your industry for the first time, and thus, you may not have any one that knows about you yet.

If you are already working in the industry and are learning to enhance your skills, then this is the perfect opportunity for you to open and run your own business on the side, while working during the day for someone else. In this way, you can phase in your own job placement without having to risk losing your job.

Job placement is more than just filling out applications. It’s about getting the word out to potential customers and employers that you’re ready and willing to work. Do you have a resume? Do you have a cover letter? These are some of the first things companies will want from you.

Again, even if you’ve just started classes, you’d want to get your resume out to as many people as possible. Visit job sites such as Monster.com and Yahoo! Jobs. There are hundreds of potential positions available! By following the guidelines here, you can be sure that your job placement is going to be effecient and successful!

It all started back in 1959, when Mr. Robert Klabacka started the prototype for Associated Training Services. It was known then as, National Institute for Concrete Construction. Since that time, his sons have went on to carry on the family business, by offering a high level of vocational training programs in a wide spectrum of different industrial fields. Associated Training Services has three main principles that it operates on.

Our 3 Main Principles That We Operate On Are:

1. Quality
2. Integrity
3. Pride

Because Associated Training Services believes in these three, we have been able to help countless others learn a new profession and build careers. In 1963, we opened our Diesel Truck Driver Training School. We took about 80 acres of land, located about 10 miles from Madison, Wisconsin. We still have our primary offices on that very same location today!

Associated Training Services endeavors to diversify the course offerings that make it possible for you to choose from a wide variety of professions and skills. We have expanded our courses, as well as locations, to reach a wider group of people that may want to learn a new profession or enhance their current profession. We are now national, and have schools in many different states.

How Can You Benefit From Associated Training Services?

Not only do we teach you a valuable skill, enhance your current skills, but we also certify and help with job placement. While other classes and schools just teach you the basics, we care about your career and your future. We want you to get the maximum benefit out of studying and training with Associated Training Services.

Get your FREE brochure and DVD today! Simply go to the Associated Training Services website and order your FREE information kit, which contains a DVD, curriculum outline, and job placement information today! Or call Associated Training Services at 1 800 383 7364.

Can you operate a backhoe? If not, why not learn?

Associated Training Services is the largest heavy equipment training school online. You can get a certification to operate the biggest, baddest heavy equipment on the planet, including backhoes, dump trucks, loaders, graders, and coming soon: Cranes! You’ll be the envy the dirt movers when you strut your stuff on top of the biggest heavy equipment in the construction industry. You’ll be the backhoe king.

ATS offers three levels of training for all equipment. The backhoe training includes:

• Introduction to Blueprints and Heavy Equipment, Trade Orientation, Safety, and Basic Rigging and Operational Techniques
• Scrapers, Rollers, Bulldozers, Graders, Earth Moving Basics, and Civil Blueprint Reading
• Soils, Excavators, Motor Graders, Heavy Equipment Operator Leadership, Grading and Finishing, and Advanced Operational Techniques

Learn everything there is to know about operating a backhoe and get a job in the construction industry. Work your way to the top!

You’ll more than you’ll ever want to know about backhoes, tractors, graders, loaders, dump trucks, and all the heavy equipment. Learn more about heavy equipment training programs right now.

Carpentry certification is a great way to improve your prospects in your construction career. If you are an unskilled labor, chances are that you have experienced working at a few different places. It is a fact that most companies offer unskilled laborers very little in the way of security, and the pay, while a little better than some other unskilled jobs, is not that great. When you add a carpentry certification to the mix, however, things take on a different light. For one thing, you will get paid a little more at the end of each month; always a nice thing, you will also get to experience some job security. Workers with carpentry certification are less likely to be let go at the end of a big project.

Carpentry certification differs a great deal from a carpentry apprenticeship. A carpentry apprenticeship takes several years to complete, carpentry certifications, however, can be obtained in a relatively short space of time. A full-blown carpenter will likely get paid more, but not everyone has the luxury of being able to survive for years on apprentice wages. Carpentry certification gives you a more focused set of skills. You get certified for tasks that you are likely to be required to perform on a daily basis. While a carpentry apprentice will train in a much broader skill set, in the day to day operations of a construction site, you are not going to need most of them.

If you are interested in gaining carpentry certification, please do not hesitate to contact us at Associated Training Services.

Job placement can help you make the jump from training to being employed. Sometimes it can be very difficult to make that transition. Many new graduates lack the confidence and some just don’t know where to look. Heavy equipment is an enormous industry and there are plenty of opportunities, but how can you break into it for the first time and how can you get the opportunity to get the experience that you need to make your own way? The answer is, of course, with job placement.

Job placement gets your foot in the door

At Associated Training Services we feel that it is of the utmost importance to offer job placement to our students. It gives our students an opportunity to put their skills to use in a work environment as soon as they graduate from our school. In the time that follows your training it is absolutely crucial to get into a job as quickly as possible. The longer you delay, the more you will forget. Job placement puts you in work as quickly as possible.

We can offer job placement because of our extensive industry connections. Over the years, many people have passed through the doors of Associated Training Services. Construction companies recognize the fact that our graduates are competent and able to handle real life construction situations. Our job placement program can put you in a company just about anywhere in the country. Talk to us and give us some indication of what you want from your job placement and we might be able to help. Our job placement connections spread throughout the United States, so if you wanted a change of scenery, we just might be able to make it happen. Of course, if you want to stay closer to home, we can do that too.

If you are interested in learning more about our job placement program, please contact us.

heavy equipment safety is something that we care a great deal about here at Associated Training Services. If you have been in and around heavy equipment for a while, chances are you will have seen a few accidents. Accidents happen, but it is our view that most accidents are entirely avoidable. Statistics tell us a great deal, but many people become so focused on them that they lose sight of the big picture. People tend to focus on the fatalities and forget that people do experience injuries that can make getting back to work difficult to do. Our training doesn’t just teach you how to use equipment, it teaches you how to use equipment safely. We want our graduates to take heavy equipment safety very seriously.

If you are already working in construction, whether or not you are an operator of heavy equipment, heavy equipment safety is something that you should have in your mind at all times. When you are working around equipment, make sure that you are doing so without putting yourself at unnecessary risk. If you are operating heavy equipment, do your best to ensure that your co-workers are working safely around your machine. There is nothing worse than being at the controls when a machine injures one of your workmates.

How can we improve heavy equipment safety around the workplace? It is easy, spread awareness about it. Most of the heavy equipment safety errors that people make have to do with saving time. Get in the mindset that it is better to be late than dead on time. Sometimes it takes a little bit longer to do things safely, but if you consider the possible consequences that come with cutting corners, it really is the only way that makes sense.

If you have any questions or comments regarding heavy equipment safety, please do not hesitate to contact us at Associated Training Services.

There are literally hundreds of reasons why you should get certification, today we are not going to go into those so much as we are going to look at some of the steps that you will need to take to ensure that you can get certified. The focus will be on the technical aspects of getting certified more than the positives of getting certification.

Step 1. Financing – Your certification will need to be financed; many students finance themselves, however, if you are not in a position to do so, you will need to consider financial aid. The process for applying for financial aid is relatively straightforward. As long as you have a good credit rating or a guarantor, you should be accepted.

Step 2. Training – Training takes time, you will not be able to work the same hours if you are training full time for your certification. You will need to decide whether it is in your interests to work full time and study part time or study full time and work part time.

Step 3. Going to Class – Just paying for your certification training does not mean that you will necessarily pass. Attaining your certification can be a lot of hard work. The pay off is at the end when you can get a better job and live a more comfortable life.

If you have any questions about any of our certification programs, please contact us at Associated Training Services.

While just about every construction site has its heavy jobs for which full blown excavators are required, there is no shortage of smaller jobs that backhoes can be used for. In fact, for smaller applications, backhoes are much more versatile than their larger cousin. What is the reason for the versatility of small backhoes? It is of course, their compact size.

Think about landscaping applications, where there is an enormous need for earthmoving. The average backyard does not have an entrance that would permit an excavator to enter. You can get them in there, but it often involves a great deal of disruption. Unless the job is really big, it might not be necessary. Small backhoes can fit into much tighter spaces and perform the same work on a smaller scale. It might take longer, but the disruption that this saves might make the additional job time worth the expense.

Of course, backhoes get a lot bigger than the small backyard landscaping models, and these can compete with excavators for some of the larger jobs. The excavator’s strength is that it is a mobile powerhouse. It can perform very heavy excavation jobs and demolition jobs. It is designed and built with these purposes in mind. There is and always will be a place for both types of equipment, but consider training in backhoes if you want to work outside of industries that tend to employ excavators.

If you are interested in learning more about either excavators or backhoes, please do not hesitate to contact us at Associated Training Services.

For those that do it, Truck Driving appeals on many different levels. If you look at what truck driving is, at its most basic, it is easy to understand why so many people love it. It is a career that just about anyone can get into at almost any stage of their life. Truck driving can be a lot of fun and it pays well. Even if you are driving someone else’s truck, you are left to your own devices for much of the day. These are all things that give truck driving its appeal, which we will elaborate on in today’s article.

Truck Driving – Easy to Get Into

Don’t mistake me, truck driving is not an easy job. Truck driving requires a certain amount of training that not everyone will complete. There are skills that not everyone can master. Getting into the training and from training into a job, however, is relatively easy. It does not take a great deal of time to meet your licensing requirements. From there, with a little help from a job placement program, you will be able to go from training to working in no time. It is a profession that does not require much in the way of an educational background, the training period is relatively short and, if you are prepared to work, the payoff is fantastic.

Truck Driving Pays Well

A lot of people don’t realize just how financially rewarding truck driving can be. Truck driving has the potential to pay extremely well, it all depends on how hard you are prepared to work. If you are prepared to drive over some of the long-haul trucking routes, where you may be away from home for days or even weeks at a time, you can find yourself earning enormous sums of money. Of course, the trade off is time; still if you enjoy the open road, long-haul truck driving can be a fantastic experience.

Truck Driving Offers Freedom

Regardless of whether you are an owner operator or working for a company, when you are doing your job it is just you and your equipment. Some big rigs might have a second driver so that you can drive around the clock, but for the most part your time is your own. This, for some people, is one of the most exciting aspects of truck driving.

If you are interested in a career in truck driving, please contact us at Associated Training Services.