Caterpillar is gearing as much as launch its World Operator Problem to pinpoint the perfect heavy gear operators within the world.

Competitors begins in January for the 2025-2026 sequence of challenges, beginning at native Cat sellers. These native occasions, held across the world, will lengthen into September. Winners will advance to regional semifinals. Of these, 9 rivals will advance to the finals, to be held at ConExpo/ConAgg 2026 in Las Vegas.

This marks Caterpillar’s third world problem. The final competitors culminated at ConExpo 2023, with Patrick Doheny of Australia successful the general award. Matt Ferris, a senior superintendent at Kincaid Civil Building in San Tan Valley, Arizona, got here in second place, adopted by Łukasz Mokrzyński of Poland in third place.

Within the 2022-2023 problem, 10,000 rivals from 32 international locations participated at greater than 140 Cat sellers. Caterpillar says it plans to broaden the following problem to greater than 40 international locations.

“For almost 100 years, our prospects have been pushing the limits with our machines,” stated Caterpillar Building Industries Group President Tony Fassino. “This problem helps showcase and rejoice the distinctive expertise of the professional women and men on this essential occupation as they forge their legacies of being the perfect operators on the earth.”

The competitors includes at the least three totally different challenges on at the least three separate items of kit. Rivals are scored on operator expertise, security, effectivity and competence on Cat heavy gear utilizing Cat’s built-in expertise.

The winner receives both a $10,000 money prize or a visit of equal worth for 2 the place Caterpillar has a location worldwide.

For extra data and the way to take part within the competitors, click on right here.