You need to be competitive and stand out from the crowd. This is done by networking and getting as much command time as you can in relevant types and environments.
We get our CPL hour builders to start networking as part of their hour building prior to CPL, fly to these places to meet the Chief Pilot and get the feel of the places, show you are comfortable nd competent flying in that environment. Driving there in a car proves nothing about your flying ability.
Minimum hours are set by insurance as well as the boss. You are wasting your time driving up there if all you have done is minimum hours drilling holes in the sky on an integrated course in a capital city. Unfortunately many flying schools tell people to get Multi/IFR (because they are in the business of selling you courses!) which is like selling someone a ladder with the first rungs so high up that you can't reach them. That can come later when you are working and can tax deduct it. The dollars spent would give you much more value putting command time to interesting places in your log book and having a "ladder" with reachable rungs.
I know some of the integrated /VET debt course people will flame me for this, but it's meant that our CPLs have had jobs waiting for them, not had to go online and ask strangers how to find work.
Good luck!