waloud

From what I could find out at work last night, we have less than 100 trucks waiting to come back to the plant. Not sure on what the hold up is, but they are hoping to have them back today 1/5.

I'm guessing we have brought back about 5,000 trucks this week. They have been repaired and inspected and sent out the gate to be shipped. Not really sure which chip modules have come back. As of last night the repairmen were installing 5 different chips. I know one had to do with the radio and another was the knock sensor on diesel trucks. We have been running 24/7 since Sunday morning.

I was told Tuesday night that we have 10,000 units waiting to come back to the plant for the chip placement. That they want to get as many as they can back and repaired and send out the door for shipping. Of course this all depends on what parts are delivered to us. We have 3 weeks for this to happen due to not building any trucks for 2 weeks and 1 week of limited production.

We ran our last shift on the 23. I believe C crew will start limited production the week of Jan. 10.

UPDATE! We have ben running close to normal production since Sunday!

We have hundreds of trucks in production at a time. If we empty the plant out, it could take 1-2 days to get the system filled and regular production to start.

Yes they will be bring trucks back to the plant the to install chips. How many they bring back could change due to parts available. We will be releasing trucks for shipping as they are fixed. I doubt they will be shipped before shutdown.

You are probably correct AtlasBlue350. We had limited production this past week on Super Duty. Parts shortages and the tornado damage to a supplier hurt our production. Not sure if we will run anymore Super Duty production this year.

We did run 2 days this week of Super Dutys. Our frame supplier got hit with a power outage from the tornado last weekend. From what I'm hearing, we will not run any more trucks until after the first of the year.

We produce around 7600 Super Dutys a week.

This is not normal for a 3 week shutdown. We are usually down from the 24th to the 1st. This way our main. crew and outside maint. crew get time to do repairs and machine replacements. This year we are down for 3 weeks so they can start getting ready for the 2023 model.

Yes we are building about 8,000-8,500 a week. Our order bank for the Super Duty is around 252,000 units. We will be shutting down at least 3 weeks for Christmas.

This is what we are seeing at the plant. We will be down for 3 weeks at Christmas.

Last info I got was all 3 shifts running. We will be running more SUV production than normal.

I'm still waiting on next weeks schedule. Hearing we might rum 2 of the 3 shifts.