DENNIS AND ED BURKE
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hen you start a business from scratch, you are on your own. Your survival in the business world depends solely on your persistence, organization and know-how. Dennis K. Burke, Inc. (“D.K. Burke”) was founded in South Boston in 1961 by Dennis Burke. His brother, Ed Burke, joined him in running the business several years later.
ED AND TED BURKE
by Maura Keller
As Ted Burke—Ed’s son and current President of the company—explains, the business initially focused on steam cleaning meat trailers and providing diesel fuel to long-haul and local trucking companies. As time went on, they purchased a truck to supply diesel fuel to the boxcar and refrigerated trailer markets, which marked the beginning of the company’s commercial fuel business.
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In 1980, Ed and Dennis entered the lubricant business and moved the operation from South Boston to Chelsea, Massachusetts. “The operation continued to grow based upon the service levels they were able to provide, expanding from a local distributor to a large distributor operating across the Northeast and MidAtlantic region,” Burke explained. Today, the company’s operations are farreaching. D.K. Burke offers a complete line of services designed to meet the needs of customers, ranging from single truck operators to multi-site organizations with thousands of units. The company currently operates in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland.