Help - I Need Some Advice From Equipment Operators.

farmerted44

i guess i got lucky, worked on the farm since i was 12 or 13..learned to drive tractors, by the time i graduated high school my grandad told me i was a tractor operator now not a driver. i was ecstatic.
sounds like he has genuine love of the field. i would proably hire him on attitude alone.
i frequent another board that has many operators/owners from PA.
i dont know if i am allowed to post another boards address here. send me a pm and i will give you the boards name. great bunch of guys. this is great board also, just the other one is exclusively heavy equipment.

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RLRH

I know im a little late to join this discussion, but i noticed alot of people from northeast Pa listing companies, i also noticed reference made to Schlouch Inc. and i was just wondering for thoes of you who know people or who may work there currently or previously, what are they starting there operators out at salary wise and are they are very hard company to get into if you have the years experience needed? Are they prompt to hire or do they give the we will get back to you line? Any help is appriciated! Thanks!

rino1494

My friend went to Penn Tech in Williamsport (right out of high school) for operators school for 2 years. He got a job with Schlouch starting out as a laborer and moved up to a operator on a pipe crew after 1 year. I think that he started out around $15/hr. I know that last fall work was slow and they only had him working around 20 hours and didn't lay him off so he couldn't sign up. He wasn't too happy about that. They are a pretty big company and do lots of work and my friend is pretty happy with them.

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