JLG Opens New Atlanta-Area Service Center

JLG Industries recently opened a new service center in Hiram, Ga. The 14,400-square-foot, eight-bay facility in the Atlanta area joins the growing list of JLG service centers that includes facilities in Houston; Riverside, Calif.; Hagerstown, Md.; and Rock Hill, S.C., which opened last year.

Michael Roth

Nov. 3, 2018

2 min read

JLG39s Atlanta service center will inspect maintain and repair all brands of lift and access equipment at the facility or on a jobsite — JLG's Atlanta service center will inspect, maintain and repair all brands of lift and access equipment at the facility or on a jobsite.

The new center will inspect, maintain, and repair all brands of lift and access equipment at the facility or on location at a customer’s jobsite. The list of services includes quarterly and annual ANSI-required mobile elevating work platform inspections, preventive and planned maintenance, light and heavy repairs, and mobile service for customers who preference onsite service of their equipment.

“We provide comprehensive service for JLG and non-JLG branded equipment to help maintain the overall health of our customers’ mixed equipment fleets,” said Andy Tacelosky, JLG Industries’ chief operating officer. “Strategically located centers like our newest location in Atlanta enable us to respond quickly to the needs of our customers and their customers, increasing the amount of uptime of their machines, which boosts productivity and drives down total cost of ownership.”

In addition to its 12 service bays, the new service center includes a wash bay, four 10-ton overhead cranes and fully equipped mobile service vehicles. The center sits on seven acres of land that includes 4.4 acres of onsite equipment storage.

As part of its ongoing commitment to support its customer base, in addition to its company service centers. JLG has a network of service provider partners throughout North America.

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.