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Hi Does anyone know if the plant closes for the week of Christmas: Dec 26-30th or do they still build trucks except for stat holidays Dec 25th and Dec 26th?
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Hermosillo Plant closed week of Christmas: Dec 26-30th?
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I think they close completely from now till January 2nd. My Bronco Sport is showing in production but build date is 1/05. Basically just consider next week as if it doesn't exist as far as production goes. If they were working my build date would be 12/29, but since it's closed, it's all shifted to the first week after New Years.
There is no way Ford could get enough people to work to build anything Christmas week. This country almost stops completely between Dec 15 - Jan 5. Seriously. Everybody calls off of their job. Tradesmen don't show up to complete projects.
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I'm one of five people on a team of ~45 showing up as "online" on Teams today... and two of those are the production on-call folks.
I'd just call it a wash until January 3. Ford may surprise us with scheduling next week but I'm not holding my breath.
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How did you get your build date, if you don't mind me asking. I had a build week of 12/19 and never got a build date
You can use Ford Chat or call Ford Marketing and they can tell your build date. That's how I got mine.
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Same here. You can only get estimated built date from Ford CS chat or call. However, I believe it's not on the same screen/app as all the other information and some reps don't know how to find it. Took me 3-4 attempts talking to different people before someone had an answer and it took them a couple minutes to find. My build week was 12/19 with an estimated build day 12/20, but it didnt actually get built til 12/21. Now waiting for shipping.
Last year my Mav went into production on the 22nd and was built on the 29th. So yes the factory is still open during the Christmas holiday. Most likely in a limited capacity but still operational.
Due to the nature of assembly line production it's easier for Ford to have mass downtime rather than a large number of folks wanting vacation during the summer when kids are off school. Each person on vacation requires a trained replacement or quality and production suffers. If vacations were scattered throughout the year many people would be forced to take theirs during the winter months.
A week over Christmas and two weeks during the summer (usually July) are traditional for auto workers and part of the labor agreement. It's not what the workers want, they want vacation when they want it.
Tradesmen/ maintenance workers as a rule work those down weeks often seven twelve hour shifts per week for projects and serious maintenance. In my 36yrs as a maintenance electrician I was probably allowed/forced off during July shutdown 3 or 4 times but usually took vacation when I wanted it.
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My Maverick was scheduled to be built on 12/15. However, it took until 12/23 for the status to change to "Built". The status was "In body shop" until 12/23, when I got the email that it was "Built" and is awaiting shipment. As of today (12/27) it is still awaiting shipment (it has not been shipped yet).
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