Drive past a new neighborhood in Central Ohio before the houses go up and you will see graded ground, some stakes, and a dozer working a slope. It looks like dirt getting pushed around. What is actually happening is the neighborhood being built in the only order it can be built: the ground first, then […]

Lexi has been on the dirt crew at John Eramo & Sons for three years, and the reason he came is the reason a lot of good operators come: a friend already working here told him how the industry worked, and he figured he’d fit running heavy equipment. He was right. Running the Challenger scraper […]

Most stories about entering the trades start with a young person fresh out of high school. Shawna’s doesn’t. She’s 44, about a month and a half into driving a Articulated Dump truck at John Eramo & Sons, and her story is proof that the trades are wide open to more people than the usual picture […]

There’s a version of the “what should I do after high school” conversation that leaves out a real option. It usually goes: get a degree, take on the debt, figure out the job later. What gets skipped is the path where you start earning right away, learn a genuine skill, and end up running equipment […]