Test Your Telehandler Skills at World of Concrete

JLG Industries Inc. will once again sponsor the Telehandler Skills Challenge
during the 2007 World of Concrete Show in Las Vegas. Open to all licensed
telehandler wranglers who are at least 18 years old, the competition is aimed at
determining the preeminent operators in the country. Contestants will
demonstrate their skills over a closed course site using their choice of one of
JLG’s four brands of telehandlers — the mighty Gradall, the long-armed SkyTrak,
the do-it-all JLG or the stratospheric Lull.

The challenge calls on operators to showcase their entire range of
telehandler credentials. Handlers must survive a pre-operation safety check (not
timed), complete a skills course and then return the telehandler to the stored
position and secure it as if it were the end of the work day. Each contestant
will have only one attempt. And did we mention the alligator pit?

Scoring will be based on proper safety procedures, driving accuracy, load
placement and the overall time to complete the course. The first place winner of
the Telehandler Skills Challenge will receive a 42-in. plasma television and new
Honda 2500W generator; second place will win a Weber grill and Omaha steak
package and third place will win a Miller welder. Fourth place gets a T-shirt.
Actually all participants will receive a commemorative T-shirt and a scale model
of one of JLG’s telehandler brands and the eight finalists will also receive a
JLG work jacket.

Complete rules and entry forms to register are now available online at
www.jlg.com/challenge9 or at an authorized SkyTrak, Lull, Gradall or
JLG telehandler dealer. Twenty-five contestants will be chosen from the entries
received to compete in a preliminary round on Jan. 23. Eight finalists from that
round will compete in the finals on Thursday, Jan. 25 to determine the winner.