| Heavy equipment education must take into account | | | | Heavy Equipment Education: New Trends |
| the current and future training and hiring requirements | | | | In the past decade, heavy equipment industry |
| of the construction industry. Heavy equipment | | | | witnessed major changes, such as shrinking labor |
| education involves training students in different levels | | | | pools, population shifts, fluctuating workloads, emerging |
| of heavy equipments. | | | | technology and competition among skilled labors. This |
| Large heavy equipments include bulldozers, loaders | | | | has necessitated the adoption of new and modern |
| and scrapers, medium ones include drillers, excavators | | | | methods of heavy equipment education. Even |
| and backhoes and small equipments include skid steer | | | | employed heavy equipment operators are required to |
| and forklifts. A good heavy equipment education | | | | continuously learn new technologies. To keep up with |
| program gives theoretical and practical training for its | | | | these requirements, several heavy equipment training |
| operations. | | | | schools have come to the fore. |