JLG Telehandler

In the late 1960's John L. Grove, with his wife Cora embarked on on a cross country excursion in their RV. Freshly retired, after spending many years working with his brother to assemble their crane company into an industry leader, John had no idea that important 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.

While on their trip, John spent time conversing with past business associates whom the Groves stopped to visit 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 considerable market for a product that could promptly 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 purchased a metal fabrication business in McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania. In 1970, opening operations with a crew of twenty personnel, they created and sold the first JLG aerial work platform. The business incorporates some of the simple design elements 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 trip and since the first JLG aerial platform entered the marketplace. As of today, the business has expanded itself into many different global marketplaces and continues to cultivate contemporary machinery to ensure that customers are able to become safer and more well-organized within their workplace.

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