JLG Telehandler

JLG Telehandler Training Whitby - In the late 1960's John L. Grove, with his wife Cora started out on a cross country excursion in their RV. Recently retired, after spending many years working with his brother to manufacture their crane business into an industry leader, John had no idea that fateful trip would permit JLG Industries, Inc to emerge. The world leader of mobile aerial work platforms and precision material handling technologies was the end result of a road expedition.

Whilst on their trip, John spent time conversing with former business acquaintances whom the Groves stopped to visit along the way. These conversations combined with a tragic incident-two workers being electrocuted on scaffolding when the Groves were visiting Hoover Dam- John discovered a vast market for a product that could promptly and safely elevate people in the air to accomplish maintenance and other building functions.

Following their return from holiday, John set up a joint venture with two of his friends and bought a metal fabrication business in McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania. Opening with a small crew of twenty workers, they fashioned and sold their first JLG aerial work platform in 1970. The company incorporates some of the basic design elements of that original lift into existing designs.

JLG lift trucks have come a long way from the time when Mr. John L. Grove returned to town from his cross-country road trip and since the first aerial work platform debuted on the market. These days, the business proudly continues to expand itself into many marketplaces globally and develops new products to make certain customers are capable of being more effective and perform in the workplace within a safer environment.

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