JLG Telehandler

JLG Telehandler Training Sudbury - In the late 1960's John L. Grove, with his wife Cora started out on a cross country journey in their RV. Newly retired, after spending many years working with his brother to develop 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 equipment was the end consequence of a road trip.

While on their journey, John spent time talking to previous business contacts whom the Groves stopped to see 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 marketplace for a product that could quickly and securely lift people in the air to accomplish maintenance and other building services.

Upon returning from their travels, John established a partnership with two friends and bought a metal fabrication company in McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania. In 1970, opening operations with a crew of twenty staff, they designed and sold the first JLG aerial work platform. The business incorporates many of the basic design elements of that original lift into existing models.

Since then, JLG Forklifts have come a long way from when Mr. John L. Grove came back from his fatefull cross-country trip and since the first JLG aerial platform entered the market. As of today, the company has extended itself into a number of international markets and continues to cultivate modern machinery to guarantee that customers are able to become safer and more efficient within their workplace.

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