Did you play with toy tractors and cranes when you were a kid? Construction equipment operators get to work with the real things and earn more money as they master each piece of equipment. But this ...

Increased use of “smart” manufacturing machinery — connected equipment that produces reams of actionable operational data — and automation in general mean that a new generation of plastics machinery ...

To help meet the industry’s persistent demand for heavy equipment operators, Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineers has gone virtual. Facing a bottleneck in getting apprentices ...

Maximizing the productivity and cost effectiveness of construction equipment is the foremost objective of maintenance managers. To reduce unscheduled downtime and cost, they use a sophisticated ...

Seasoned equipment operators can probably share a few horror stories about their time behind the controls of heavy equipment when they first started out. For many, working in the chill or heat and ...

Her name is Lena Turek–but on the job site, everyone knows her as “Teaspoon.” The 24-year-old is commanding some of the ...

Paving equipment has come a long way in the past decade as manufacturers continue to improve their products’ features and capabilities in order to ensure optimal production speed and pavement quality.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Tennessee College of Applied Technology Knoxville is answering a call directly from the local construction industry. The college’s heavy equipment operator training ...

Five employees from the Virginia Department of Transportation’s Culpeper District earned championship trophies at the annual equipment operators’ competition on June 1 and 2. The event, known as the ...