JLG Telehandler

JLG Telehandler Training Moose Jaw - After retiring in the late 1960's, John L. Grove started out on a cross country RV voyage. After spending numerous years establishing his family built crane company with his brother, John had no idea that this trip would bring about the rise of JLG Industries, Inc. 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 event-two workers being electrocuted on scaffolding when the Groves were visiting Hoover Dam- John uncovered a vast marketplace for a product that could promptly and securely lift people in the air to accomplish maintenance and other building functions.

After returning from their holiday, John set up a business with two of his friends and purchased a metal fabrication company in McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania. Opening with a small crew of twenty personnel, they produced and sold their first JLG aerial work platform in 1970. The business incorporates some of the basic design essentials of that original lift into current models.

JLG forklifts have come a long way since 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. Today, the business proudly continues to expand itself into various markets globally and develops new products to make sure clients are capable of being more efficient and perform in the workplace within a safer environment.

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