On a train… strike looms

[LSchicago]

Not worried just find it amusing how things keep popping up to cause possible delays

Train derailment is not common, but will ruin your year. Everything else is minor.

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[smoreho2]

Wow it’s been almost a full year since my order, not to mention the months wait for the order window to open.
Now strike might delay delivery.
It was built 9/6. It was shipped 9/8. Estimated delivery 9/18 thru 10/2. Strike deadline this coming week Thursday 9/14.

After 1 year, mine is being built next week. It may be living in Mexico for awhile if there is a strike. UGH

 

[dusty1787]

I hope mine is on the same train: Build Date 9-6-23 . I don't have confirmation of shipment yet though. I'm less worried about the UAW strike( it won't affect delivery) and more concerned about the weather interfering or a train derailment. lol

Same build day as mine, and Ford Chat tells me mine is still awaiting shipment. I would check in with them to see if it actually has been shipped yet or not. I am not trusting Fords Automated Emails for keeping me informed. I thought Ford sends you a "its built" email that I never got, but the tracker and Chat have told me it has been built.

Seeing you are in IL, (me WI) and the same build day... I would hope maybe ours (if yours has not been shipped yet) will end up on the same train as I assume they may go to the Chicago area hub first, before to the dealerships.

 

[StarNut]

Does anyone know what or how many parts are made by UAW workers? I know the truck factory is not UAW, but are the parts to build a scheduled truck already being made or all this still "just in time manufacturing" and nothing is made until a few weeks before being needed?

 

[LTW]

teamsters unions deliver the trucks. On strike teamsters won’t deliver… I think

From my past experience with this nonsense, the unified Teamsters and Rail workers will honor the picket lines of the other unions and will not cross them. Salaried workers of the various transportation companies are exempt from this stipulation and will cross the lines to make deliveries, but the salaried company employees are few in number, so the possibility of bottlenecks in transportation flow is a strong one.

 

[1929]

Wow it’s been almost a full year since my order, not to mention the months wait for the order window to open.
Now strike might delay delivery.
It was built 9/6. It was shipped 9/8. Estimated delivery 9/18 thru 10/2. Strike deadline this coming week Thursday 9/14.

Railroad going on strike?

 

[Ozarkbeard]

...the unified Teamsters and Rail workers will honor the picket lines of the other unions and will not cross them...

Do UAW members work at rail yards where vehicles are being unloaded? If not, why would there be a picket line there to even cross?

 

[Scott Asheville]

Teamsters aren't the UAW.

Teamsters have already publicly stated they won't deliver OEM vehicles while the UAW is on strike. So if they keep that promise of solidarity, no deliveries by teamsters. But there are truckers who aren't in that union. And I know GM has a program where dealers can drive vehicles back to the dealership straight from the factory (no trains, no trucks) and the dealership gets the $1,000+ delivery charge.

 

[Darnon]

Teamsters have already publicly stated they won't deliver OEM vehicles while the UAW is on strike. So if they keep that promise of solidarity, no deliveries by teamsters. But there are truckers who aren't in that union. And I know GM has a program where dealers can drive vehicles back to the dealership straight from the factory (no trains, no trucks) and the dealership gets the $1,000+ delivery charge.

Who knows how widely they're following that since even the UAW is only striking at one factory each so far. And it was just the Detroit Teamsters union publicly quoted as saying they wouldn't.

 

[fossil]

Teamsters have already publicly stated they won't deliver OEM vehicles while the UAW is on strike.

No they did not say that, never did.

 

[LTW]

Railroad going on strike?

No. But they are protected from crossing the picket lines of other unions without punitive actions against them (they can’t be written up) for refusing to cross another union’s picket line.

 

[LTW]

Salaried workers (white hats, supervisors, management) can cross the picket lines, but they are few and far between. It can take hours and hours for them to get there an make a 1/2 mile move of a transport.

 

[MakinDoForNow]

Railroad going on strike?

No but if your truck is inside of an area behind a picket line then the Railroad union workers may or may not cross another unions picket line to pick up your truck. (It's like in jail!). In the distant past (1960's?) during a strike trains with automobiles were subject to random accidental things hitting the trains.

 

[commadorebob]

Teamsters have already publicly stated they won't deliver OEM vehicles while the UAW is on strike. So if they keep that promise of solidarity, no deliveries by teamsters. But there are truckers who aren't in that union. And I know GM has a program where dealers can drive vehicles back to the dealership straight from the factory (no trains, no trucks) and the dealership gets the $1,000+ delivery charge.

They specifically said they would not cross a picket line. So, a factory that isn't currently striking will still have shipping. UAW is trying to do progressive striking so they aren't pulling the plug on everything at one time.

Personally, I think they always intended for this first strike wave to send a message.

 

[Old Man]

The Mexican railroad that picks up Mavericks will continue to do so. Transferring to US railroads won't be a problem. Most truck transport drivers in the country are not union. Some localized urban areas may have some difficulty but most of the country won't. Biggist risk is if it is a prolonged strike that impacts UAW parts plants like engines and transmissions then that could impact Maverick assembly.

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