There’s no law that limits you to how much career training or jobs you can receive. A general rule of thumb is this: The more you know and the more you can do, the more valuable you’ll be to potential employers. For that reason, we recommend training on as many different types of heavy equipment as possible.

In the Heavy Equipment School basic course, you’ll be trained to operate the following equipment as a matter of course:

• Backhoes
• Front end loaders
• Wheel Loaders
• Skid steers
• Scrapers
• Bulldozers
• Road graders
• Excavators
• All-terrain forklifts
• Articulated haul trucks

You’ll also learn valuable and useful skills such as grade reading, soil identification, laser levels, worksite safety, reading site layouts, and basic heavy equipment maintenance. We won’t leave anything to chance. Your education will set the course of your heavy equipment career, so we take it seriously.

How to Get a Leg Up With Employers

Learning how to operate the basic heavy equipment you’ll see on most construction sites is the best way to get a foot in the door of a heavy equipment career, but going beyond that will enhance your career prospects and make you more employable. You’ll also earn more once you are on the payroll. That’s why we recommend the following training courses, as well:

• Mobile crane operations
• Truck Driving
• Rigging/Signalpersons training

With each of these specialized training courses, you’ll be certified to work in the heavy equipment industry as you learn important skills from the best instructors in the business. The sooner you enroll in training, the sooner you’ll be employable and make good money in a heavy equipment career.

Heavy equipment jobs are around every corner in North America. Just about every community has at least one company ready to hire truck drivers this week. Large urban communities have several. Here are this week’s heavy equipment jobs in the United States:

• SHEBOYGAN, WI Hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• MADISON, WI Hiring mobile crane operators and riggers.
• GREEN BAY, WI Hiring heavy equipment operators.
• FORT MEYERS, FL Hiring mobile crane operators.  
• MILTON, WI Hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• ALEXANDRIA, MN Hiring mobile crane operators.
• MADISON, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• PORTLAND, OR Hiring riggers.

If you want a job in heavy equipment, first, secure your job training. Get qualified for the position you want to hold, then look for jobs in your area. Total Resources Network will help you find the right job in your neck of the woods, and if you take your training at Heavy Equipment School, you’ll have lifetime access to the job training network. So if you find yourself unemployed again in a year or so, then you’ll always have a way to find your next job.

Associated Training Services will train you to be a mobile crane operator, a Class-A CDL truck driver, and to operate other types of heavy equipment. You’ll be qualified to operate everything from a backhoe to an all-terrain forklift. With a CDL truck driver’s license, you’ll be the most valuable employee on the work site.

Our next class starts on March 28, 2016. Start your heavy equipment training right now.

You don’t have to scan the heavy equipment job listings to know that job opportunities are opening up all over the country. Our aging population means many members of the Baby Boomer generation are retiring. It’s going to be that way for the next 20 years. Younger people looking for work in the heavy equipment industry have had no better time to find work than right now. Here are this week’s job listings in heavy equipment:

• JOHNSON CREEK, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• WAUSAU, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• NETT LAKE, MN hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• LIVONIA, MI hiring mobile crane operators.
• JANESVILLE, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• GREEN BAY, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• FLINT, MI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• WHITEWATER, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• ARTESIA, NM, hiring mobile crane operators.

If you’re wondering why there are so many Class-A CDL truck driver jobs listed, it’s because there are a lot of truck drivers who have reached retirement age. They are now ending their careers and moving on to a life of leisure. This is your big opportunity to learn a new skill and develop a career that you will enjoy for the rest of your life. It starts, of course, with the proper training.

Truck drivers can be men or women. Race is no issue either. All you need to do is enroll in a truck driver training course, get the proper qualifications, take your state driving test, and secure a Class-A CDL driver’s license. After that, you’ll be eligible to start your truck driving career.

If you spend your hard-earned money on special training to prepare you for a career in heavy equipment operations, you definitely want to make sure that your training pays off and prepares you for that career. What you want is to ensure you can land a job with your training. There are a few ways Associated Training Services helps you better prepare for your career as a heavy equipment operator.

It all boils down to how we assist our students in several key areas of training:

1. Financial Assistance – If you can’t get your training, then you’ll have a hard time managing a career. That’s why we offer financial assistance. We want all of our students to succeed, and what better way to do that than by ensuring that your heavy equipment operator job training is affordable and easy to pay for? Your financial options include student loans, military, and veterans benefits, and state and federal grants.
2. Housing Assistance – Even if you work out how to pay for your career training, you still need a place to live while you are in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin being trained. If you’re local, you likely have that all worked out. But if you have to travel to our facilities, you need a place to live while you are being trained. That’s why we offer ATS dormitory for you to get discounted rates while you are in school.
3. Employment Assistance – We offer employment assistance on several levels. First, we assign you a personal career counselor to help you with your job search and advise you on important job search skills. We also train you on soft skills like resume preparation and interviewing. And you gain access to our job leads database forever.

We take down the barriers to heavy equipment training. Our employment assistance website will ensure that you are successful-both while you are a student and after you graduate.

Some weeks, there are more heavy equipment job listings than others. This happens to be one of those weeks where we have quite a few. From Green Bay, Wisconsin to Houston, Texas, there are jobs waiting for you to apply for.

Want to become a Class-A CDL truck driver? You’ve come to the right place. No matter what type of heavy equipment you’d like to operate, you can find a job anywhere in the U.S. Take your heavy equipment operator training from ATS and you’ll get free access to our job board. If you lose your job, you can come back to the job board and find another one. Any time.

Here are this week’s heavy equipment job listings:

• GREEN BAY, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• MARSHFIELD, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• LOVES PARK, IL hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• WHITEWATER, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• WEYAUWEGA, WI hiring heavy equipment operators.
• HOUSTON, TX hiring mobile crane operators.
• AKRON, OH hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• BRIDGEVIEW, IL hiring heavy equipment operators.
• MADISON, WI hiring heavy equipment operators.
• FORT LAUDERDALE, FL hiring heavy equipment operators.
• HOUSTON, TX hiring heavy equipment operators.
• BRYON CENTER, MI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• BURLINGTON, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• IRON MOUNTAIN, MI hiring heavy equipment operators.

A lot of people who want a career in heavy equipment ask if they need to be trained or if on-the-job training (OJT) is available for heavy equipment operators. The short answer is, yes, heavy equipment operations training would be beneficial to your career. The longer answer is a bit more nuanced.

There are still some employers who offer OJT for heavy equipment operators, but not all of them. If your goal is to become a forklift operator, there are plenty of small companies that will train you and certify you on their premises. However, long-term, your career would benefit by attending a training school that is certified and that meets OSHA’s standards for training and certification.

When it comes to large heavy equipment like mobile cranes and backhoes, you are much better off seeking a career training school with a solid reputation.

Even among employers who train on-site, a lot of them use training schools like Associated Training Services to administer the training and certification programs. In that case, you are getting your training through your employer, but it’s not necessarily by your employer. That’s still a recommended path. Large heavy equipment and industrial employers come out ahead by training and certifying many new hires at once rather than paying travel expenses, housing, and training costs for each one.

In short, the best heavy equipment training schools will take individual students and perform on-site training and certification for large employers. Either way, your career is in good hands. Take OJT training from a small employer and you may end up having to boost your career with your own training anyway.

If you search the latest job listings at Associated Training Services’ online job board, you’ll notice that you can find jobs in almost any community across the country. Just enter your zip code, state, and the type of job you’re looking for and see what pops up. Of course, you have to sign up for the job board. Graduated students of ATS’s training classes can join for free.

It doesn’t matter what type of heavy equipment job you are looking for, they’re all over the place. The job board will help you find jobs in all the following classifications:

• Class-A CDL truck driver
• Mobile crane operator
• Forklift operator
• Dump truck driver
• Road Grader
• Backhoe operator
• Rigger/signalperson
• Front-end loader operator

And much more. If the job exists in the heavy equipment or heavy construction sector, then you can find it here. But you’ll need to be trained on the equipment that you want to operate, and that requires enrolling in a heavy equipment operator class that will teach you all the basic skills for operating the equipment and qualify you and certify you for the job.

You are just one leg away from getting your next heavy equipment job–or your first one if you are just starting your career. Why not enroll in a class right now and get your career started?

Don’t let finances get in the way either. If you need financial assistance, we have financial assistance specialists who can help you get the money you need for training. We also offer housing assistance and job search assistance once you graduate. Your success is our success.

One of the most important jobs on the construction work site is that of a rigger. The rigger is responsible for the safety of personnel working on the site, especially mobile crane operations. But they are subject to regulation and the regulatory authority for riggers is OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

The Heavy Equipment School Rigging/Signalperson training program will prepare you to be a world-class rigger and pass all certification tests and safety requirements of OSHA. We have the best program in the industry.

So what makes it such a good training program? All of the below:

• It meets and exceeds the OSHA qualification standards for rigger and signalperson training
• You’ll receive written and practical training and testing on those standards
• The qualification program offers 8 to 12 hours of instruction, depending on the number of students in class
• The certification program offers a 4-day intensive of 32 to 36 hours, again depending on the number of students in the program
• All graduating students will receive a qualification compliance card upon successful completion of the Rigger/Signalperson Qualification Program
• Students graduating from the Rigger/Signalperson Certification Program will be certified by the National Commission for Certification of Crane Operators

Associated Training Services (ATS) offers several ways to take this training. You can come to us and be trained in our world-class facilities, or, if your company is certifying several riggers and signalpersons at once, then we’ll arrange to come to your work site and administer the training.

OSHA standards are tough, but they are necessary for a safe work site. ATS is committed to training riggers and signalpersons in the latest qualification and certification standards for crane operations.

As usual, Associated Training Services has job listings all over the country. From heavy equipment operators in Roanoke, Virginia to Class-A CDL truck drivers in Muskego, Wisconsin. Here’s the latest:

• ROANOKE, VA hiring heavy equipment operators.
• CHUNCHULA, AL hiring heavy equipment operators.
• CORBETT, OR hiring mobile crane operators.
• DE PERE, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• CORPUS CHRISTI, TX hiring mobile crane operators.
• WI, REEDSBURG hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers
• MADISON, WI hiring mobile crane operators with Class–A CDL.
• SPEARFISH, SD hiring heavy equipment operators with Class–A CDL.
• NEW HOPE, PA hiring heavy equipment operators. 
• FARMINGTON, NM hiring heavy equipment operators.
• MUSKEGO, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.

If you’re thinking about a career as a heavy equipment operator or Class-A CDL truck driver, now is the time to get your training. Even if you want to specialize in a particular type of heavy equipment operations–for instance, mobile crane operations–you can get great training at a great price from seasoned industry professionals. You might even qualify for employment or housing assistance. Financial assistance is also available for all qualified candidates.

Once you’ve been trained to operate heavy equipment on the work site or drive a truck, then you can find the right job for you. Specialize in skills like Class-A CDL and you can command top pay. If you have multiple qualifications, then you’ll be in even higher demand. A mobile crane operator with a Class-A CDL license will always be employable.

Start your heavy equipment career today.

It’s the beginning of the year and heavy equipment jobs are starting to come in. This time of year, many cities and municipalities in the northern part of the United States and Canada, start using heavy equipment operators to push snow around. One of the primary functions of these worker bees is to clear snow off of streets so that automobiles and other mechanical traffic can navigate them. It’s an important job that will keep you employed all winter if you are in the right place.

Still, you’ll need to be trained. Here are some of the most recent heavy equipment jobs we know about:

• MADISON, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• NESHKORO, WI hiring heavy equipment operators with Class-A CDL.
• PORTAGE, WI hiring heavy equipment operators.
• LA CROSSE, WI hiring local Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• LOWELL, AR hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• WANO, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• CEDAR RAPIDS, IA hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• YODER, IN hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• JANESVILLE, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• SUN PRAIRIE, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• MANITOWOC, WI hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• CEDAR RAPIDS, IA hiring Class-A CDL truck drivers.
• HOUSTON, TX hiring mobile crane operators.
• GRANITE FALLS, MN hiring certified riggers.
• WARRENVILLE, IL hiring heavy equipment operators.
• CAMP LEJUNE, NC hiring mobile crane operators.
• MUSCATINE, IA hiring mobile crane operators.
• PLATTEVILLE, WI hiring mobile crane operators.

Whether you live in the North or the South, the ATS job board has the best job listings in heavy equipment. It looks like there is a huge demand for Class-A CDL drivers this week.