JLG Telehandler

JLG Telehandler Training Oakville - In the late 1960's John L. Grove, with his wife Cora started out on a cross country trip in their RV. Newly retired, after spending many years working with his brother to develop their crane company into an market 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 materials handling technologies was the end consequence of a road trip.

Whilst on their journey, John spent time conversing with former business contacts whom the Groves stopped to see along the way. These conversations combined with a tragic event-two workers being electrocuted on scaffolding when the Groves were going to the Hoover Dam- John uncovered a vast market for a product that could quickly and safely elevate people in the air to accomplish upkeep and other building functions.

Upon returning from their travels, John formed a partnership with two friends and acquired a metal fabricating business in McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania. In 1970, starting operations with a crew of twenty employees, they created and sold the first JLG aerial work platform. The company incorporates some of the simple design essentials of that original lift into existing models.

Since then, JLG Forklifts have come a long way from when Mr. John L. Grove returned from his fatefull cross-country trip and since the first JLG aerial platform entered the marketplace. As of today, the company has expanded itself into several international marketplaces and continues to cultivate innovative machinery to ensure that consumers are able to become safer and more efficient within their workplace.

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