I talked to the owner of my dealership last night when I picked up my truck. I view him to be a VERY honest guy-seriously. He stated that he can still place orders but needs to do so in conjunction with his regional reps. As he calls them, junior corporates...He said that with their blessing, they are still getting orders through but it sounds more and more like if your dealer has a good relationship with his regional rep, orders will still be accepted and filled.
I waited a long time for my truck-he said that weather caused all sorts of problems this winter. At first I took this at a high level but as he started talking about it more, it made sense. Weather issues in Michigan-cars/trucks get backed up getting on the train, moving along, getting unloaded. The part I did not think about-the Northeast. The NJ rail yard snow dig out of current cars plus having no where to put new cars because of all the snow they had to move makes perfect sense. He said Ford was delaying orders and shipping more orders south and west because of this. Maybe BS but seems really logical and believable to me and he has always been very straight forward with me.
