Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Her name is Lena Turek–but on the job site, everyone knows her as “Teaspoon.” The 24-year-old is commanding some of the heaviest ...

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 ...

In Toledo, Ohio, the Department of Public Service and the Department of Public Utilities together employ more than 75 heavy equipment operators to run the municipality’s equipment fleet. From motor ...

SAN BERNARDINO >> Bulldozers. Excavators. Backhoes. This wasn’t your typical classroom. The hum of the behemoth earth-moving vehicles enveloped the students here. As dust kicked up from the work, a ...

Her name is Lena Turek–but on the job site, everyone knows her as “Teaspoon.” The 24-year-old is commanding some of the heaviest equipment on the highway. At 5-years-old, while other kids were ...