EquipmentWorld.com | July 2015
35
EquipmentWorld.com | July 2015
35
BETWEEN THE CUSHY
LIFE OF A COLLEGE
GRAD OR THE CHALLENGE
OF WORKING IN THE
FIELD WAS EASY FOR
THIS HEAVY EQUIPMENT
TECHNICIAN
ing feeling every time he sees a pneumatic sander.
But when the opportunity to work at a higher skill
level came along, Brent was ready and paid attention
to the people who could best mentor him. "I've been
lucky to work with several people that really know what
they're doing," Schroder says. "You can bounce some-
thing off of them and they help you fi gure it out and
show you the shortcuts."
Schroder graduated college in 2009 with honors. But
when he looked around at what his friends with fi nance
and business degrees were doing, what the entry-level
jobs were like and what working in an offi ce was going
to be like, he knew he had to go back to equipment.
So Schroder came on full time with Traylor Bros.,
working on equipment in New Orleans where Traylor
Bros. is a joint venture partner to PCCP Constructors.
There, they are building fl ood protection that will keep
future fl oodwaters from inundating New Orleans.
Training pays off
Thanks to Traylor Bros. policy of having every employ-
ee go through two weeks of training a year, Schroder's
AEMP Technician of the Year
Brent Schroder,
Traylor Bros., Inc.
CHOICE CHOICE
THE
Small things that
could become big
problems – like
this cotter pin –
are replaced.
