Sometimes, the unique circumstances of a job site or the niche a company has worked hard to develop require heavy equipment operators who have specialized training for the specialized tasks they are expected to perform. ATS Specialized can come to the site or provide classes in their training facility. This training falls under these categories:

• NCCCO Crane Operator Training, Testing and Certification
• OSHA Compliant Rigging & Signal Person Training, Testing and Qualification
• NCCER Heavy Equipment Training, Testing and Qualification
• Class-A CDL Commercial Driver Training, Testing, and Licensing

Why ATS Specialized?

The value of ATS-Specialized training is the experience behind the instruction. Since 1959 there has been training happening at ATS, and that means we’ve developed the skills and understanding it takes to train operators who meet today’s standards with the advantage of accumulated wisdom.

The curriculum is up to date, the instructors are certified, the accreditation is nationally respected, and the customers have been satisfied for decades. What more could you ask for?

Ask For The Training That Fits Your Needs

The skilled trades industries operate in a wide variety of environments, doing a broad spectrum of work, under lengthy regulations specific to the task, and often have customers who need unique challenges met. A solid basic operator training course is a good foundation, but the skills and knowledge must be built on that foundation before the job can be done.

Since the training team can come to the site, their valuable experience and insight can be utilized to make sure all the factors are taken into consideration and your workers are trained the way they should be for the job.

For more information on ATS Specialized training please call us at (800) 678-8149.

There are times when a specific job has a lot of regulations to adhere to, and often part of the requirement is that your crew, or certain members, undergo specific specialized training in order to do the job. If you don’t have the people trained to the required standards, there will be consequences, and it isn’t worth the risk.

The problem is the logistics of providing that training. There’s a lot to juggle: legal stuff, industry, operating environments, and customer needs. This becomes the reason an employer needs ATS Specialized Training.

Associated Training Services has a team of instructors who are able to design the perfect training programs for your employees and then teach those employees what they need to know. Your workforce productivity and safety consciousness will be improved, you will fulfill regulatory and insurance requirements, and they can come to your work site to do it if that is what you need.

Whether you need to provide your employees specialized training in heavy equipment, mobile crane, or commercial vehicle training, ATS can do it:

• backhoes
• bulldozers
• wheel loaders
• excavators
• scrapers
• articulated dump trucks
• motor graders
• all-terrain fork lifts
• mobile hydraulic cranes
• lattice boom cranes
• articulated boom cranes
• commercial motor vehicles/CDL testing
• NCCCO Crane Operator Training, Testing and Certification
• OSHA Compliant Rigging & Signal Person Training, Testing and Qualification
• NCCER Heavy Equipment Training, Testing and Qualification
• Class-A CDL Commercial Driver Training, Testing and Licensing

That looks like a lot, but you know as an industry employer that any job involving heavy equipment needs to have high standards for the operators and your crew that lay their lives on the line to do their job every day. ATS Specialized Training may even be funded by the Incumbent Worker Training Program, which provides employer & employee training grants.

Have you seen that reality TV show, Railroad Alaska? Anyone interested in heavy equipment will be fascinated by the portrayal of all the big machines that are needed to keep the railroad functional. And it’s true that for many folks, the railroad is the lifeline of communication through the wilderness. Of course, the directors seem to think that “human drama” is what sells the show, but I bet a lot of viewers watch because they love watching big machinery get a job done right. Who wouldn’t want to watch a cannon blast an avalanche loose so the excavator can move it off the tracks?

The show demonstrates something that many often miss; it takes a lot of different types of machinery to do things. In this case, a railroad is more than trains. Businesses often rely on more types of heavy equipment than most people realize.  This is why ATS offers Specialized Training.

We can come to your site or you can come to our training site and get training, testing, qualification, certification, and even licensing in the exact area it needed for the equipment you use. It will be OSHA compliant and meet NCCCO and NCCER standards. We know the industry because we’ve been in operation since 1959, but we haven’t stagnated. We’ve strengthened.

Customized training and specialized curricula are part of our strengths:

• we can train your employees for the work you do with the heavy equipment you use
• we can meet regulatory, insurance, and safety requirements 
• we can help you be productive and profitable

That Railroad Alaska TV show is a showcase for the need to train heavy equipment operators expertly so they can do an important job safely and well. If those guys didn’t know what they were doing, it’d be terrible.