Show Off Your Mining Equipment: Inspire the Next Generation

Those of us who work with big rigs every day often forget that for many people, being around large farming implements and mining equipment is somewhat of a novelty. Many of them have never known what it feels like to see an axle thicker than their own torso or to feel dwarfed by the sheer size of a single OTR tire.

That's why we are always pleased to see community events encouraging the next generation to get up close and personal with the exciting machines that make farming, mining, and other industrial tasks possible.

Take for example the Touch-a-Truck event hosted by Michigan's Sterling Heights community. At this hands-on event, residents could get into the driver's seat of salt trucks, fire engines, front end loaders, rescue trucks, backhoes, and sewer trucks.

According to Doyle, participants will be able to take photos, climb in the vehicles and learn from the men and women who operate the rigs what they do every day.

Who knows what sort of long-term impact early experiences such as these could have on the young people exposed to them? Such exposure is key, because although infrastructure jobs tend to offer more equitable wages when compared to all other national occupations, they tend to be overlooked as viable career options by a large cross-section of the population. According to the Brookings Institution, infrastructure occupations are projected to increase 9.1 percent during the next decade, and that doesn't even count the projected need to replace more than 2.7 million workers who will age out of the workforce.

Clearly, the time to alert our young men and women to these promising and fulfilling careers is now.

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