See, as I hopped into the ADT with Deere product manager Kasey Kelly, we were both entering new territory; me a first time-driver and she as my guide. Kasey gave me the basic rundown of how to turn it on and move it forward, along with some choice safety tips. She instructed me to hit the gas and drive toward an excavator up site.

When I tapped the gas, the 50,000-lbs machine moved at, perhaps, a pace neither myself nor Kasey were prepared for.

As we ambled along – me sitting straight up like a twilight guard on watch, wanting to appear confident and in control – Kasey said, “And I’m just going to trust you, here, because you said you’ve never driven construction equipment.”

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