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FREE 20-week training to start your career in logging and forest trucking

Classes start June 24, 2025

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What will I learn?

Become skilled in equipment operation and maintenance, and earn your CDL

Earn hands-on experience within the forest environment and expand your skill set in this dynamic industry-recognized program.  Knowledge gained will give you a competitive edge in securing employment and advancing your career while allowing you to work in the outdoors, anywhere in Maine, with the tools for higher earning potential.

This program will prepare you for the operations and maintenance of the most current equipment available and teach you to drive log and chip trucks to begin your career in the logging and forest trucking industry.

Learn to operate and maintain:

  • processor
  • forwarder
  • feller buncher
  • delimber
  • grapple skidder
  • loader/crane/slasher
  • center mount trailer
  • log trucks

Now is the time to earn your CDL-A and prepare for a new career in logging.

Eligibility requirements:  Participants must be 18 or older, have earned a high school diploma or HiSET/GED, and have an immunization record verifying vaccination (or titer results indicating immunity) for MMR and Diphtheria/Tenanus administered within the past ten years.  Screening of suitable applicants will include an interview with the selection committee, review of applicant's driving record, pre-entrance controlled substance testing, and a physical agility screening. 

Interested in more information?

The Mechanized Logging Operations and Forest Trucking program was created by three Maine community colleges in partnership with the Professional Logging Contractors of Maine and launched in 2017. 

This program is 100% grant-funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment, and Training Administration.

Approximately 95 percent of logging in Maine now relies on mechanized equipment.  With the majority of operators of this equipment at or near retirement age, the demand for new operators is high.  

Participants of the program are highly sought after by employers and often have offers to consider before completion.

We are hiring instructors for the Mechanized Logging Operations and Forest Trucking program.  If you are interested, please learn more at 

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Do you have what it takes for a career in the woods?  Worker requirements include:

SKILLS:  Operation and Control, Operation Monitoring, Equipment Maintenance, Active Listening, Monitoring

KNOWLEDGE: Mechanical, Public Safety and Security, Production and Processing

ABILITIES: Control Precision, Reaction Time, Arm-Hand Steadiness, Multilimb Coordination, Depth Perception

WORK STYLES:  Dependability, Initiative, Self-Control, Adaptability/Flexibility, Cooperation

 

2030 job outlook for logging equipment operators is expected to grow year over year, with an anticipated 266 openings annually.

Openings for commercial drivers will exceed 1,100 per year.

 

Learn more at maine.gov/labor/cwri

 

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This program would not be possible with the generous support of: 

Northern Maine Community College
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