JLG Telehandler

JLG Telehandler Training Hamilton - Following retirement in the late 1960's, John L. Grove started out on a cross country RV expedition. After spending many years establishing his family built crane business with his brother, John had no idea that this trip would give birth to the rise of JLG Industries, Inc. The world leader of mobile aerial work platforms and precision materials handling technologies was the end result of a road trip.

During their journey, John reacquainted himself with former business acquaintances along the way. In combination with these conversations and a noteworthy event; two workers were tragically electrocuted on scaffolding when the Groves were passing through the Hoover Dam. John discovered an infinite market for a product that could promptly and safely lift people in the air to accomplish maintenance and other construction functions.

After returning from their holiday, John set up a partnership with two of his friends and obtained a metal fabricating company in McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania. Starting with a small crew of twenty staff, they produced and sold their first JLG aerial work platform in 1970. The business incorporates many of the basic design essentials of that original lift into current designs.

Since then, JLG Forklifts have come a long way from when Mr. John L. Grove came back from his fatefull cross-country journey and since the first JLG aerial platform entered the marketplace. As of today, the company has extended itself into many different global markets and continues to develop innovative machinery to ensure that consumers are able to become safer and more efficient within their workplace.

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