Bob Rosadini

4 cyl.2.7 turbo

To this old stockholder with quite a few shares, I sure do hope Farley was just being entertaining when it comes to his discussion with the young guy. Formula 1 is enough of an adventure for now...I'm sure Ford's base will be glued to their TV's when that debuts? First things first...in particular quality issues and keeping the current product mix competitive. Just got my latest Hagerty mag and flattering article on new Colorado with its 2.7 turbo four. Hope the new Ranger will be equally competitive...

And seeing as we are speaking of Hino, just thinking about their class 8 announcement...how many years ago? But I'll say this much..they seem to be doing well here in central, eastern Mass.. I know what the sales figures show but my observations on the road say otherwise. I thought their shutdown for how many months would be very good for Ford and maybe make it tough for Hino to bounce back but I guess not.

Bad Post 7M.......will get to Farley,.... Plant Mgr gets canned and so much for that good idea.?

Someone told me Penske had a major position in distributing Hino trucks.. This is old info going back to debut of the class 6/7 conventionals. Fact or fiction?

Ah yes..one of Henry's better quotes..."you can haver it in any color as long as it's black!?

Just another thought, in those pix of a Ranger lineup, they show a conventional cab. Wonder if that would be available here? Back "in the day" plenty of plain jane Ranger conventional cabs were sold...utility cos. (meter readers-admittedly a vanishing vocation), parts delivery "hotshots", exterminators-they want their poisons isolated from driver compartment etc. Back to the importance of the "Commercial Fleet", seems like there would be a place for a vehicle like this

I think it was the solid front axle that gave them that look.Another good idea that just started catching on and Ford dropped it.

LS.."Been there..done that" exact same experience. A real dumb move- huge old maple had gone down.main trunk is semi horizontal and I'm walking on it, even though had patches of ice..working on major off shoot and suddenlyI start sliding backwards, saw comes out of cut and in instant I let go of trigger saw hits my thigh-big puff of red! Wife did a good job of stitching it back together- the Carhartts that is?

CH Hah..I do but I don't have leather "chain saw" chaps or whatever they call them, but winter grade Carhartt coveralls do a good job of slowing an idling chain before it comes to a stop.

I'm afraid you have let the cat out of the bag. Paccar today is at 72 bucks. But once word gets out that Paccar has recognized that millennials are the new market and the likes of Tesla and Nikola will dominate class 8's leaving the scraps to the likes of Freightliner and Volvo, the stock will take off. Rumor has it that Jac the Knife is now on Paccar's board and has convinced them that the magic he worked at Ford by giving away the class 8 business will work as well at Paccar. Just as the millennials are now clothing themselves in Carhartt garb, a Pete or Kw emblem will elevate their stature when they drive their class 4 pickup to the stable, or "club"- be it yacht or golf.? By the way, my Carhartt vests, jackets, coveralls are so tattered after countless washings that don't get the oil and grease stains out, to say nothing of the holes associated with careless chain saw use, I could probably sell everything for a good buck. Look at the success of the jean market with the ripped -tattered look!

7M- looks like a photo shop to me..Either that or the worker putting the grill on is a dwarf and they are putting 22.5's on an E-350 as rubber looks big too. also IO think a lot of that OAP assembly footage is when they first started building the new cab...too many "idle hands" IMO standing around. Also one shot shows a truck with a V-10 emblem.

Are they simplifying the option list ( by reducing optional equipment) or just folding more options into fewer product lines in the name of ATP???

Not only an ag legacy, but Ford did well in the industrial market. Still plenty of 555 FordTLB's in service in my area. I had a friend that was a sales guy at a Deere dealership-yellow machines- and he told me once he lost an account to Ford he never got it back. I remember a front page WSJ article many years ago that was on the world tractor market. It mentioned the traditional big players.."the green, red and tan/orange machines-=Deere, IH, and Case...but a new player in Blue was on the scene"..or words to that effect. It then went on to discuss Ford's growing market share throughout the world. At that time I think Romeo was the main tractor operations plant in the US and and Basildon (sp?) in England supplied Europe?? But then after all that effort to become a world player, someone got the idea...."tractors were not a part of Ford's core business". I think Henry would have disagreed. How many people started "driving" as a very young kid-as did I- on a Ford tractor? And as a college kid working his way through school I graduated to a Ford TLB. For sure tractors were a part of Ford's legacy.

As I've posted before Joe, MA DOT has them- my bet is they are 650 or 750's with derated plates so a non cdl can drive them. Not like the old days-in particular when the Turnpike Authority ran their own show they had L-9000's that were BIG spec trucks.

Agreed. And as I previously posted it appears Rams seem to be predominating when it comes to new ambulance orders. The Fire service community is a tight fraternity. And the GM/Navistar class 4/5's will just make matters worse.

Or someone came to their senses before they got to the cliff?

Well good news as reported by Fox 25 last night, "motor arrived today" for the Abington FD truck that has been down since Oct. ..they then showed it parked at dealer that I recognized as Foxboro.... -Allegiance trucks. This location was one of the early Ford dealer development heavy truck stores. It is also a major fire equipment dealer (Pierce ) so they probably delivered this ambulance when new. Their truck line is now International and Ford mediums. Allegiance is a mega dealer that has been buying up International dealers in Northeast

AK, Thank you. But we can't do anything at a measured pace when between politicians playing to the green gallery and people in industry doing the same thing in particular, when driven by the media as they hype the "progress" with good press for the "pioneers". In the meantime China is building dozens of new coal fired plants, Brazil continues to burn down the Amazon to convert to agribusiness, and India is probably doing both. Between us and the EU, I have read more than one story that says our efforts amount to a piss hole in the snow compared to what these others continue do..or NOT do.

Not arguing your point on changing in mid stream. But wishful thinking I'm afraid. Fortunately when enough people say this is BS, sometimes government puts its finger in the air and senses a change in wind direction. We can only hope for change at a measured and sensible rate that considers all the consequences globally as well as in our own backyard. Didn't everyone expect Toyota to go full bore on electrics when "Mr Yota" retired?. I thought I saw something the other day that the new chief said it will take ALL options to be successful.

Ford Authority reporting on this one too today. With same Fox reporter covering both stories I'm sure he will be following up with Ford as this is "his" issue--not to say he is an "ambulance chaser".?

Well guys watching 10PM Boston Fox News just now and same issue that I started this thread about. Town of Hingham Ma has a 550 ambulance out of service since Jan.. Same story-small department with two ambulances. They are fortunate that a neighboring town has loaned them their spare- I would guess a 2015 450/550. Reporter-same guy who did story last Wednesday night on issue with town of Abington- said he contacted "Ford"-not sure if that means dealer or Ford- but has not heard back. This chief told reporter.."No engines available in country, supply chain issues". I guess OAP is not building any trucks either?????

Mack' Thx for your view. I guess for sure if I made an error, are most of these people in the "E" group? and totally removed from ICE? I don 't think so..certainly not the new .."transformation officer charged with quality improvements". Or is he just an "E" guy.?..again if so, reverse synergism as I see it. As for Mulally, true, not a car guy, but a nuts and bolts engineer who headed up a far more complicated manufacturing process than building cars. As as for Musk? Bad comparison IMO. Did he grow a very successful manufacturing process from scratch? I think so. Perhaps a bit smarter than the "average bear". Like I said, Farley was going to bring his skillsets to Ford as a very successful marketing guru. He convinced Bill that he could run the entire thing. Just like the guy who built office furniture did.

And how many of these new people REPLACED someone in the org chart? Seems like an exercise in buzz words to come up with word salad solutions for problems that should be handled by existing people-with effective leadership of same... I thought that we were in the age of flatter org charts?? And I think we have to go back to the thing that made Farley such a priority recruiting "catch" for Mulally at Bill's direction. He was the marketing genius that made Lexus a success. But instead of concentrating on making improvements to the current business WITH the respective functional leaders, Farley is pursuing what we have been told is our immediate priority..the electrification of the auto industry. And he certainly gets good press for that. Unfortunately while that should be approached at a measured pace, it seems it has become Farley's focus and he is in his creative comfort zone. As to someones point about Mulally being an "engineer" as opposed to a manufacturing guy, I remember reading about an "all hands" meeting of some sort when some brave soul in a Q and A session posed the question to him about how comfortable he was dealing with an industry in which the product had like 12,000 parts? His answer? A 747 had like 5 million! For the sake of my shares, I certainly hope Farley is the solution Bill Ford and the Board thinks he is.

As he talks about 500,000 a year-granted a long term projection- how much comes out of F 150/250- and for that matter 350-550? Also I would think E cut away has to be a target? As well as 250/350 Transit? He talks a lot about "aero" so how do you eliminate a hood and keep it "aero"? And if it is a "cab forward", probably no need for any kind of tilt cab.?????