JLG Telehandler

JLG Telehandler Training St Catharines - In the late 1960's John L. Grove, with his wife Cora embarked on on a cross country trip in their RV. Newly retired, after spending several years working with his brother to assemble their crane company into an market leader, John had no idea that fateful trip would allow JLG Industries, Inc to emerge. The world leader of mobile aerial work platforms and precision material handling equipment was the end result of a road trip.

Whilst on their journey, John spent time talking to past business contacts whom the Groves stopped to visit along the way. These conversations combined with a tragic occurrence-two workers being electrocuted on scaffolding when the Groves were going to the Hoover Dam- John uncovered a substantial marketplace for a product that could swiftly and safely lift individuals in the air to accomplish maintenance and other building functions.

After returning from their trip, John set up a partnership with two of his friends and purchased a metal fabricating company in McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania. Opening with a small crew of twenty personnel, they fashioned and sold their first JLG aerial work platform in 1970. The company incorporates some of the basic design essentials of that original lift into existing designs.

JLG lift trucks have come a long way from the time when Mr. John L. Grove came back to town from his cross-country road trip and since the first aerial work platform debuted on the market. These days, the company proudly continues to expand itself into a range of marketplaces globally and develops new products to make sure consumers are capable of being more efficient and perform in the workplace within a safer atmosphere.

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