Labor & Workforce Development

Boosting Operator Retention in the Construction Industry
Equipment Monitoring & Logistics
How to Boost Operator Retention in the Construction Industry
Fleet management platforms can be an effective tool to combat operator turnover and improve fleet performance, facilitating communication between management and operators in the field.
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Asphalt Industry Annual Training Guide 2024-2025
October 6, 2024
Milwaukee Tool invested more than $60 million into the more than 500,000-square-foot facility.
Milwaukee Tool Opens Factory in Mississippi
October 2, 2024
Inadequate signage, road construction, poorly maintained roadways and storms (rain, snow, ice, wind) all pose risks, especially for large, heavy vehicles that require more space for stopping and time to maneuver turns.
Driver Safety: A Core Transportation Industry Value
October 2, 2024
Practical skills and the ability to perform skilled trades are now gaining more appreciation and respect.
Why Today’s Youth Are Embracing Skilled Trades Over Four-Year Colleges
September 25, 2024
Takeuchi’s Moore employees signed the interior engine cover of the 10,000th CTL, making it a once-in-a-lifetime purchase.
10,000th CTL Manufactured at Takeuchi-US South Carolina Facility
September 25, 2024
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The overriding common theme is that, when it comes to people, you must play defense as well as offense. In other words, a company’s first focus should be on keeping the people it has before focusing on gaining new people.
Labor & Workforce Development
Recruiting, Retaining Construction Workers Amid Shrinking Labor Pool
Looking for the right employees to join your construction company can be difficult. Regarding recruitment, construction companies should be cautious because of their unique environment.
Labor & Workforce Development
5 Common Hiring Mistakes Construction Companies Make
The construction industry is experiencing an ongoing hiring drought, and the challenge of hiring has led to a loss of business for many general contractors.
Labor & Workforce Development
How Technology Bridges the Construction Trade and Talent Gap
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How is Your Construction Company Helping Hurricane Helene Affected Areas?
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Driver Safety: A Core Transportation Industry Value
Trimble Construction | Trimble
Coupled with advanced technology, fleets should continue to prioritize and revisit their driver training programs. The most successful fleets have many touch points for their safety training programs.
Inadequate signage, road construction, poorly maintained roadways and storms (rain, snow, ice, wind) all pose risks, especially for large, heavy vehicles that require more space for stopping and time to maneuver turns.
Labor & Workforce Development
Why Today’s Youth Are Embracing Skilled Trades Over Four-Year Colleges
Cavalry Construction
The shift toward trade schools has significantly impacted the construction industry in addressing one of the industry’s biggest challenges: a shortage of qualified, skilled workers.
Practical skills and the ability to perform skilled trades are now gaining more appreciation and respect.
Labor & Workforce Development
10,000th CTL Manufactured at Takeuchi-US South Carolina Facility
Takeuchi-US
Producing 10,000 machines in two years is certainly a major accomplishment, and getting there required many on-site pep talks and encouragement from Takeuchi’s headquarters in Nagano, Japan.
Takeuchi’s Moore employees signed the interior engine cover of the 10,000th CTL, making it a once-in-a-lifetime purchase.
Coaching & Consulting
When an Off-Duty Construction Worker Saved a Life Using Narcan
SAFE Project
The story of how Jimmy Kelley, a professional painter from Boston, utilized his naloxone training to save someone's life.
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Business Services
Half Century of Manufacturing Celebrated at Volvo's PA Factory
Volvo Construction Equipment
Over the past 50 years, roadbuilding and general-purpose construction equipment has been manufactured at the Shippensburg factory beginning with compactors, which have remained a focus.
Volvo CE employees gather to celebrate 50 years of manufacturing at their North American headquarters in south central Pennsylvania.
Construction Safety Technology
Why Your Contractor Safety Evaluation Process is All Wrong
Highwire
A comprehensive contractor evaluation process requires gathering the right data that provides an understanding of past performance but also creates a predictive view of safety risk.
Evaluating the standard incident and risk statistics involves retrieving data from many sources and cross-referencing figures.
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