JLG Telehandler

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

While on their trip, John spent time conversing with previous business associates 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 going to the Hoover Dam- John uncovered a vast marketplace for a product that could swiftly and safely elevate people in the air to accomplish upkeep and other building services.

Upon returning from their travels, John formed a joint venture with two friends and bought a metal fabrication company in McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania. In 1970, opening operations with a crew of twenty personnel, they designed and sold the first JLG aerial work platform. The business incorporates many of the simple design essentials of that original lift into existing versions.

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 several international marketplaces and continues to develop new equipment to ensure that customers are able to become safer and more efficient within their workplace.

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