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The Contractors Association of West Virginia is holding a seminar today as part of the 28th Annual West Virginia Equipment, Technology, and Design Exposition. Big deal, right? This happens every year. However, this year’s exposition will be holding a seminar on a topic previously not discussed: heavy equipment theft.
The CAWV became aware of this problem [...]

NAHETS places emphasis on being aware of significant events related to safety within the heavy equipment and construction industries. Monday night a 200-ton crane fell over at an Aventura Mall construction site in Miami.
Surprisingly, only one worker was injured, suffering a broken leg, which was caused when the crane hit the worker. Reporters say that [...]

Friday, March 9, 207 signaled a step forward for NAHETS, one I have been anticipating for quite some time. NAHETS has employed the services of Mary Ellen, whose purpose is to serve as a national job placement officer.
Mary Ellen is an expert at finding employment within the industry as heavy equipment operators or crane operators, [...]

Canadian colleges are receiving a windfall in government funding for heavy equipment technician programs according to an article published in a Daily Commercial News and Construction Record a Canadian publication.
Thus far the U.S. has relied heavily on private training to teach heavy equipment technicians and operators. Today the majority of heavy equipment technicians and operators [...]

As a NAHETS PR representative I continually come across news that relates to the heavy equipment industry, but that doesn’t necessarily get much ink unless it has a heavy editorial spin. I came across this article about the difference between skid steers and compact wheel loaders. The interesting thing about the article is not necessarily [...]

A student once asked me why he should attend our 3-week program, when he could attend a similar program for four weeks. My answer was to the point: if a school forces you to attend longer than necessary to learn the skills necessary for employment, then they are not serving their student population. On the [...]

True Story.
In May of 2004 an employer with 350 operators visited the school. He gathered all the students around him and asked which one of them would want to start work right when they graduated. All raised their hands. He then asked which ones would not mind starting out digging with a hand shovel until [...]

East Coast Drilling and Blasting attended the last two graduations at the Georgia School of Construction and hired 5 of our graduates. They called in today and need to fill 5 crews in the next few weeks and will be at the school this Friday, March 16, to conduct interviews.
Phoenix Crane, who hired John Carrio [...]

Mike Martens, the NAHETS VP of Operations is planning to attend the AGC (Associated General Contractors of America) Convention in San Antonio, TX, on March 21-24.
We at NAHETS are thrilled to be a part of AGC, and plan to network with AGC members to get the word out about our schools and the training programs [...]

New DVD’s have been finalized and are awaiting distribution for our member heavy equipment operator schools and training, contacts and others.
The new DVD kit with booklet highlights hundreds of hours of footage taken by NAHETS schools in order to present the exciting changes across our campuses. History of nahets and heavy equipment operator training schools.
Look [...]