I just wanted a general idea where I was in line. I know that options will affect my place and the fact that eco's are shipping already.
There really is no general idea to provide. Lots of folks from June still haven't heard a peep, other folks that just ordered a cpl months ago are starting to take delivery.
If it was an Eco I could probably bet with favorable odds that it'd be scheduled tomorrow. But since you ordered a hybrid, even a minimally optioned XL, who knows.
There is no way to second guess your place in line although highly likely the day,hour,minute,second,sequential position of all orders placed within that second is recorded. This would allow computer to assign parts in inventory to your particular truck by your sequential order position. (Yes I was a mainframe programmer in 1970's I preferred assembler coding over cobol due to speed of processing and easier to set up complex comparisons.). Think of your order as a spreadsheet of multiple lines of enough columns to provide a yes/no answer of all options. When your order is placed one line is filled with "your" yes/no conditions can then be compared to another line containing yesses you are allowed to have. Note this structure would allow changes to allowed builds based on time of your original order to be compared to which line in the spreadsheet is effective for the time of your order. You can change allowable builds starting at a certain time by adding a line with effective start time. ,Etc etc etc.
Unfortunately nobody can really know. It sounds like the order # you referenced is just the 5 digit number from your truck's build sheet? If yes, this is a dealer set number, and has no bearing on where you are at in terms of your actual build with Ford (my order number was alpha numeric - again because it is simply how the dealer sets their own order system).
