Demand grows for rotating telehandler

By Mal Gill
Updated July 4 2022 - 11:42pm, first published January 21 2022 - 9:00am
JCB's first rotating telescopic handler, the 555-210 Roto, has finally arrived in Australia. CEA WA machine operator James Daffin (left) and general manager Renay van der Meulen are pictured with the first Roto to land here. Attachments include the four-man basket (pictured), a crane jib, bucket and forks.
JCB's first rotating telescopic handler, the 555-210 Roto, has finally arrived in Australia. CEA WA machine operator James Daffin (left) and general manager Renay van der Meulen are pictured with the first Roto to land here. Attachments include the four-man basket (pictured), a crane jib, bucket and forks.

DEMAND in the United Kingdom and Europe has been so strong it has taken 18 months for the first JCB Roto (short for rotating) telehandler to arrive in Australia and it has come to Perth.

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