How Dominic got started
Dominic Russo grew up in Fort Lauderdale and was moving and delivering pianos for a Las Olas dealer before he was twenty, learning the trade one grand and one tight stairwell at a time.
What stuck with him was that muscle is the easy part. The job is won or lost on whether anyone read the freight-elevator rules, measured the staircase turn, and planned for the heat before the truck ever rolled up.
I got tired of watching families hand a forty-thousand-dollar grand to a dollar-per-pound crew that chipped the lid and snapped a leg. So I built a company that boards the piano and moves it ourselves. — Dominic Russo, owner
The company by the numbers
Since 2011 the trucks, the crews, and the paperwork have all stayed under one Fort Lauderdale roof.
- Founded2011, by Dominic Russo
- TrucksFive, all titled to the company
- FL registrationFDACS IM3142
- Interstate authorityUSDOT authority · MC authority
- Base1240 NW 21st Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311
From piano board to full mover
The company grew the way Dominic learned the trade — pianos first, then everything around them.
- 2011 — Dominic founds the company with one truck and a piano board, taking the grand and high-rise jobs nobody else wanted
- 2012 — Victor Pratt joins as senior piano and organ specialist, adding church organs and gun safes to the lane
- 2013 — Carla Mendez comes on to run the office, write every flat quote, and pull the condo-tower COIs
- 2015 — Andre Beaumont steps up as lead crew chief over the Las Olas, downtown, and beach-condo crews
- 2019 — Nicole Foster takes over move coordination and the climate-controlled, piano-safe storage
The part the cheap crews skip
What a lowball outfit leaves on your shoulders is the logistics that actually keep a South Florida move from falling apart, and that’s the part we carry.
- High-rise and Intracoastal towers get their Certificate of Insurance filed and the freight elevator reserved days before move day
- Las Olas, Rio Vista, and Harbor Beach estates get crews who treat the grand, the art, and the wine the way they should be treated
- Victoria Park and Sailboat Bend homes get movers who know how a piano turns a tight historic staircase with no elevator to fall back on
- The schedule bends around hurricane season and snowbird timing, and the storage stays climate-controlled against South Florida heat and humidity
Who you’ll deal with
The same long-tenured crew runs every job, each owning a piece of the work.
- Dominic RussoOwner & master piano mover — still runs the grand and high-rise jobs himself
- Carla MendezOffice manager & scheduling — writes every flat quote and pulls the COIs
- Sal GrecoOperations & dispatch — maps each day around I-95, the Turnpike, and elevator windows
- Andre BeaumontLead crew chief on the Las Olas, downtown, and beach-condo jobs
- Victor PrattSenior piano & organ specialist for grands, uprights, organs, and safes
- Nicole FosterMove coordinator & storage — COI timing, elevators, and climate-controlled holds
Fifteen years in, the grand still goes up to the high-rise with my own hands on it. That part is never getting handed off. — Dominic Russo, owner, Piano Movers Fort Lauderdale