Construction Equipment
Ag Equipment
Roadbuilding
Dealers
Business
Technology
Tag: teens
Roadbuilding
More people over 75 licensed to drive
A record number of people had driver’s license in the United States in 2016, with the highest increase among those aged 75 to 79, according to the Federal Highway Administration. In all, 221.7 million people were licensed to drive last year. About one-fifth of them were 65 or older. The 75-79 age group saw a […]
November 30, 2017
Roadbuilding
Sober teen punished for helping friend, keeping roads safe
I thought the idea was to make roads safer. It’s a fact: Teenagers do stupid things. We all do. However, this is ridiculous. And this wasn’t stupid – at least not on the part of 17-year-old honor student Erin Cox, captain of the North Andover (Massachusetts) High School volleyball team. When Cox received a phone […]
October 17, 2013
Workforce
European neighbors look to Germany’s vocational training system in order to combat high youth unemployment rates
As of late, Germany has been receiving a lot of attention and praise for its dual-education system. A system the country credits for its very low 8-percent youth unemployment rate. For comparison, as outlined in a great new article from The Economist, European counterparts Spain and Italy have youth unemployment rates of 56 percent and […]
June 4, 2013
Business
U.S. needs to “Think Big” like Germany if it wants to escape construction, technician labor shortage
Contractors and equipment dealers struggling to find a solution to the shortage of trained technicians in the United States, need look no further than Germany for an example of how to do it right. The German Engineering Federation, VDMA, last month bussed in more than 10,000 teens to participate in Bauma 2013 and a program […]
May 3, 2013
Page 1 of 1