What would you imagine to be the average age of construction workers? Is it lower or higher than the entire American work force? The average age of construction workers is 41, the same as the overall labor force. Is this surprising? So much of construction is very physical and sometimes back breaking work. Home building …
The hot topics in trucking right now are the driver shortage and trucking automation. While trucking automation may be a potential solution to the driver shortage years from now, there needs to be efforts today to ease the driver shortage. As many of current truckers are nearing retirement age the industry faces the challenge of …
The greatest concern with self-driving trucks or trucking automation has been truckers losing their jobs. And now that automation could be only three to four years away, truckers are feeling uneasy. Truckers, for the time being, put your minds at ease. Trucking automation and self-driving trucks are on the horizon to fix several problems. One …
As summer road construction projects get into full swing it is important to understand how to keep construction workers and drivers safe. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, as of 2015, there have been 96,626 crashes in work zones. This shows a lack of attention to safety in work zones. In order to reduce …
Automated guided vehicles, or AGVs, have become an increasingly popular means of transporting materials during the in-plant stage of production. They come in numerous variations that serve unique purposes. However, all of them are aimed at making a plant more efficient. AGVs accomplish this by operating without humans. This reduces production time that is prolonged …
A common problem that many veterans face when returning home is finding a steady job. Many times veterans find it hard to adapt to the ever-changing job market because it is much different from their time in deployment. However, legislation is in the making to ease the process for veterans to find work in the …
Hundreds, if not thousands, of years of culture and gender pigeon holing can be hard to shirk off. Some jobs are considered “too hard” or “inappropriate” for one gender or the other. Regardless of anti-discrimination laws and how hard we try these notions are often too deeply ingrained in us. We still have an unconscious …
There is a growing popularity, and legalization, of different drugs in American society. Companies face the dilemma of controlling the effect of drugs in the workplace. Currently there are 29 states that allow medical marijuana and 2 states that allow recreational marijuana use. In addition, every state contains access to prescription drugs that many people …
With the election of President Donald Trump, and the announcement of his $1 trillion construction spending plan, many contractors prepared to flock to the public sector. The massive investment by the government in the public construction sector led many contractors to switch their resources from the private sector to the public sector. However, before switching …
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