Denver: The Miami of the West?

Greetings good people. What the hell is going on with the rates in Denver? Every time I look, everything is sub $1.50 a mile. I just logged onto DAT and started looking for van loads from today to next week. The only decent paying loads were Denver to Hickville, CO or to Nowhere, NM. Is there that much capacity in Denver?

 

Yeah, I just got $4.25 a mile to go there, but I was just casing out the action there on DAT for next week and it was pretty bleak. The only decent paying loads go to small mountain towns like Montrose or Durango and a few rural places in New Mexico. And they're all over 43,000 lbs. If I can score $2 a mile to go to Indiana or Ohio, I'm jumping it.

 

Yeah. Another option would be to do a couple of Denver to Denver to piggyback on any other cheap load I take.

 

I think I would rather do a couple of high paying local runs before I take a cheapy or a big deadhead. This will get my rate per mile more respectable when I average it out over the three or four trips. My sister lives in Aurora, so I don't mind sitting for a few days if I have to. I actually welcome it every time I go to Denver.