Florida to Colorado Freight shipping and trucking services are in high demand. Tampa to Denver is a very heavily traveled route.
The Tampa, FL to Boulder, CO shipping lane is a 1,876 mile haul that takes more than 27 hours of driving to complete. Shipping from Florida to Colorado ranges from a minimum of 1415 miles and 22 hours from Tallahassee, FL to Burlington, CO, to over 2,094 miles and a minimum of 30 hours on the road from Fort Lauderdale, FL to Fort Collins, CO. The shortest route from Florida to Colorado is along I-70 W; however, there’s also a more Northern route that uses I-75 N passing through Lincoln, NE.
Florida Freight Shipping & Trucking
Florida is a state that has an incredibly long coastline with many islands and peninsulas. Most of the state has a sub-tropical climate, with temperatures that often top 100° F in the summer. Most major shipping and trucking delays in Florida are related to hurricanes and tropical storms, which regularly affect various part of the state, especially on the east coast. Look out for hurricanes and tropical storms from June through November. Florida’s largest cities, all with populations of over a million in their metropolitans areas, are Miami, Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville. However, Florida has many medium-sized cities and industrial areas along its coasts; shipping tends to be distributed over a large area in Florida.
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Colorado Freight Shipping Quotes and Trucking Rates
Thanks in part to its high elevation, Colorado’s weather patterns are largely dictated by the terrain of mountains and valleys, as well as arid plains. Its climate is generally semi-arid, with an alpine climate in the high mountains. Extreme weather is not uncommon, with heavy hailstorms and thunderstorms. Wildfires have become an increasingly severe problem, thanks to prolonged high temperatures and droughts in the plains.
The I-70 cuts across Colorado from east to west. Colorado trucking companies frequently carry goods along this route internally, connecting Fort Collins to Pueblo via Denver and Boulder. Colorado freight companies traveling east to west on I-70 (or northwest on I-76) also travel through the state capital of Denver in transit between Utah and Kansas. Colorado is well served by a network of state roads cutting through forests and the Rocky Mountains.
Miami to Denver Freight shipping quotes and trucking rates vary at times due to the individual states industry needs. Since Colorado and Florida are mainly agricultural and distribution centers throughout, we see plenty of shipments by refrigerated trailer, flatbed as well as by the more common dry van trucks. Our Less Than Truckload (LTL) carriers in both Florida and Colorado are also running a number of regular services between the two states, and it’s an active route for for heavy haul freight shipments, as well.
