By Cheryl Jahn

The RoadShow highlights opportunities for careers

Jul 19, 2024 | 3:01 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – Whether its operating a snow plough, a road truck or a front-end loader, these students from the Prince George Necaho Aboriginal Employment and Training Association got to put themselves in the driver’s seat.

“It’s a good transition into what you would what you’d actually experience in the real world,” says Ken Barwich, Tour Operator for the RoadShow. “The controls are very similar. And mistakes are not as consequential.”

The trailer came available in January and this is the first year it is on the road, on behalf of the Road Builders Association. Road construction, heavy equipment operations, and snow ploughing are in the same place as every other profession: Highly short in operators.

“I think that a lot of the verbiage right now is, you know, you don’t have to be a lawyer, you don’t have to be a doctor. There’s a lot of opportunities.”

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The work in road building goes well beyond road building. There’s site prep, planning, bridge-building and the list continues. And the simulations are remarkably similar to the real thing, which helps.

Barwich says there have been some success stories and recounts one, in particular, of a retired truck operator of twenty years who had retired. But he wasn’t ready to retire.

“He sat down on my machine and had a chance to try it. He’s like, You know what? This is something I could do. I’m going to really look into this because I don’t want to work an office job till I retire.”

The next stop for this travelling Road Show is Vanderhoof.

by Cheryl Jahn

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