In Production Early?

[MaveLick]

Good news on mine. It was scheduled for the "week of 4/14" and I seen that it changed to BUILT on 4/15 and received the official email stating such Sunday. This morning I received an email stated it was now shipping and our finance guy was able to confirm it was at the rail facility for future loading on a railcar. Time will tell now just how quickly it makes it from there to Buffalo, NY.

That is a great News! Mine also went in production on 4/13 as scheduled. It came out and immediately shipped the next day 4/14.

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[WNYEscapee]

That is a great News! Mine also went in production on 4/13 as scheduled. It came out and immediately shipped the next day 4/14.

Exactly what happened with mine. Build 4/14 and noted as shipping a day later. We tracked it at work and it was at the rail yard. I have a scheduled delivery date between 5/1 and 5/14. Now, I walk out the door this morning, and here's a truck coming by, I look and immediately notice a Maverick on top in my color, too. Upon a second look I note steel wheels -- not mine. I then notice a second one behind it, again, with steel wheels. Both of these were XL Hybrids. Either way, the wait is nearly over.

 

[MaveLick]

Exactly what happened with mine. Build 4/14 and noted as shipping a day later. We tracked it at work and it was at the rail yard. I have a scheduled delivery date between 5/1 and 5/14. Now, I walk out the door this morning, and here's a truck coming by, I look and immediately notice a Maverick on top in my color, too. Upon a second look I note steel wheels -- not mine. I then notice a second one behind it, again, with steel wheels. Both of these were XL Hybrids. Either way, the wait is nearly over.

Mine is at the dealership. Hopefully yours will arrive at your dealer soon.

 

[DuffCon]

Check the window sticker link at the bottom of the tracker. As i understand it, if your sticker is released, you are about a week out of your truck rolling down the line. My tracker updated to "in production on 3/29, and my sticker populated on 3/30. So if the theory holds up, my truck should be made around Wednesday next week, which is 1 week early from my planned date of 4/12

Just to update myself. My prediction was wrong. See my signature.

 

[WNYEscapee]

I was chatting with the GM the other evening after he asked if I was getting excited yet, and we discussed briefly the amount of coordination that must go on from the submitting of an order to its production and delivery.
Think about the information that must be shared with vendors who supply components; to their suppliers of materials with both vendors and the manufacturer, with the factories for scheduling production of components and final assembly, with rail companies, and with trucking companies delivering your vehicle the final step.
There's a tremendous about cooperation taking place there. It almost seems amazing that prior to the entire Wuhan catastrophe it could be done in a matter of weeks. But then, everything was capable of working as a fine oiled machine. That's hardly the case now; locally there's fast food shops paying $15-20/hr. and they still cannot staff well enough to be open the full hours they had been several years ago. Which, on the broader scale, explains why it is there are so many constraint/production issues with vehicles and other products.

 

[Redneck Garage]

Not trying to be rude but this exact topic has been covered so many times here. Please start using the search function.

Eactly !! And a few other terms that should use the search function -

Dealer Markup
Where's My Truck
What is an allocation
Windshield Rattle
Dishonest Dealership
Ford Sux and last but not least -
Dumpster Fire ..... hahahahahahaha

 

[Redneck Garage]

I was chatting with the GM the other evening after he asked if I was getting excited yet, and we discussed briefly the amount of coordination that must go on from the submitting of an order to its production and delivery.
Think about the information that must be shared with vendors who supply components; to their suppliers of materials with both vendors and the manufacturer, with the factories for scheduling production of components and final assembly, with rail companies, and with trucking companies delivering your vehicle the final step.
There's a tremendous about cooperation taking place there. It almost seems amazing that prior to the entire Wuhan catastrophe it could be done in a matter of weeks. But then, everything was capable of working as a fine oiled machine. That's hardly the case now; locally there's fast food shops paying $15-20/hr. and they still cannot staff well enough to be open the full hours they had been several years ago. Which, on the broader scale, explains why it is there are so many constraint/production issues with vehicles and other products.

Clearly it had to be hard to determine if anything a dealership GM was saying was true due to the fact .... his lips were moving.

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