JLG Telehandler

After retiring in the late 1960's, John L. Grove set out on a cross country RV trip. After spending numerous years establishing his family built crane company with his brother, John had no idea that this trip would give birth to the rise of JLG Industries, Inc. The world leader of mobile aerial work platforms and precision materials handling equipment was the end consequence of a road expedition.

All through their trip, John reacquainted himself with former business acquaintances along the way. In combination with these conversations and a significant event; two workers were tragically electrocuted on scaffolding when the Groves were passing through the Hoover Dam. John uncovered a substantial marketplace for a product that could swiftly and securely elevate people in the air to accomplish maintenance and other construction services.

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

Since then, JLG Forklifts have come a great distance 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 business has extended itself into quite a few global marketplaces and continues to develop modern machinery to ensure that consumers are able to become safer and more resourceful within their workplace.

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