The dozers that these new workers use should offer hydraulics and machine control to ease the bumpiness of adapting to the landscape of a new job, pun intended. Visibility is a key element in the ...

New-to-the-trade dozer operators may not be able to fully appreciate the level of operating efficiency and comfort experienced when stepping into the cab of today's modern machines. But more ...

heavy equipment manufacturers are including technology in new models to make precise earth-moving easier. WSJ's James Hagerty takes a spin in a brand new dozer. Photo: Raymond McCrea Jones.

The 24-year-old operator was pushing coal from a pile into the feeder when the dozer fell off the edge of the pile at the ...