On January 1, 1966, Robert O. Burke Sr. and Barney F. Hasenyager opened Mississippi Clarklift, Inc. in Jackson, Mississippi. Taking over the territory formerly covered by Delta Material Handling in Memphis, Tennessee, Mississippi Clarklift was a franchised dealer of both Clark and Crown equipment.
The company has grown over the years and has expanded to meet it's customer's ever-growing needs.  To better serve our customers througout the state, branches were opened in Greenville, MS in 1975, Columbus, MS in 1976, and most recently in Hattiesburg, MS in 1995.  In 1985 we changed our name to better describe the complete line of material handling equipment we now carry.  Mississippi Clarklift, Inc. became Burke Handling Systems, Inc.  Aside from Clark and Crown equipment, through the years Burke Handling Systems has become franchised dealers and distributors of a wide range of material handling equipment including, but not limited to:  Hytrol conveyor systems, Magline hand trucks, Sellick rough terrain forklifts, Daewoo industrial trucks, Drexel forklifts, Pioneer dock equipment, PJ Casters,  K-W/Hawker PowerSource industrial batteries and chargers, and most recently we have become a dealer of Linde Baker forklifts. Linde Baker covers a full line of electric and internal combustion lift trucks.