JLG Telehandler

JLG Telehandler Training Vaughan - In the late 1960's John L. Grove, with his wife Cora set out on a cross country trip in their RV. Freshly retired, after spending numerous years working with his brother to develop their crane business into an industry leader, John had no idea that momentous trip would permit JLG Industries, Inc to emerge. The world leader of mobile aerial work platforms and precision material handling technologies was the end result of a road expedition.

Whilst on their trip, John spent time talking to former business associates 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 discovered a vast market for a product that could quickly and safely elevate people in the air to accomplish upkeep and other building services.

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

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

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