A South Philly kid who learned the river first
Anthony Russo grew up in South Philadelphia, on a block of rowhouses where the trucks parked two-deep and nobody had a driveway. Before he owned a moving company he worked freight logistics at the Port of Philadelphia — scheduling containers and learning that the Delaware Valley is really one market split three ways by a river. He kept seeing the same thing on the household side: a Philly mover who couldn’t legally cross into Jersey, and a cheap hourly quote that ballooned the second a flight of trinity stairs ate the morning. So in 2014 he started Pro Tri State to do it straight — one flat rate, three states’ worth of authority, his own trucks on the road.
One crew, both ends, both sides of the river
What you book is what pulls up to your stoop. We don’t subcontract, we don’t bid your job out, and no stranger ever touches your furniture. The crew that pads and shrink-wraps your place in Manayunk is the same crew that carries the last box up the steps of your new home in Cherry Hill. We work the things that make a Delaware Valley move hard: narrow one-way streets with no driveway, trinity houses with winder stairs you can barely turn a dresser on, Center City high-rises that want a COI on file before the freight elevator unlocks, and the bridge tolls and Schuylkill backups that decide what time the truck really arrives.
Who you’ll be dealing with
Gina Marchetti runs the office — scheduling, the certificates of insurance the Center City condo boards and HOAs ask for, and the billing — so the paperwork is squared away before you sign a thing. Sean Walsh runs dispatch and the daily truck board across all three states, timing the bridge crossings around rush hour. On the trucks we run three crew chiefs: Dom Bianchi leads our piano and specialty work, Tyrese Carter heads the long-distance hauls, and Pat Doyle is the man for rowhouse stairs, trinities, and third-floor walk-ups. All told we’re seventeen people, twelve of them movers, and they wear the same shirts.
Licensed in all three states
To load on one side of a Delaware River bridge and unload on the other, you need three credentials, and Pro Tri State holds all three: household-goods authority with the Pennsylvania PUC, registration with the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, and a Delaware mover’s license. Federal USDOT and MC authority covers anything that crosses a state line. On the protection side, your shipment carries cargo coverage to a $1,000,000 limit, released-value runs $0.60 per pound as the standard, and full-value is yours for the asking. Every truck on the road wears our name — we own it, we maintain it, our own crew drives it. None of that has changed since the first job in 2014.
