You’ve given me a little bit of hope! Ordered a Laramie 3500 Cab Chassis on 9/18. It was confirmed on 9/19. The UAW strike worries me that it will take a loooong time to be built. Being that I ordered it from a small town dealership (closest “big” city is 120 miles away) concerns me too. Finger crossed I get a build date soon.
Remichex, I am in the same situation. I live 120 miles from the nearest “small” city with a metro population of 450k. The nearest “big” city of a million or more is over 250 miles.
Being a retired engineer I had to analyze the process flow based on the data in this thread. I did not include any data for orders that were made before 2024 production started on 7/10. That only left 5 orders that provided all the dates. If I add my order that makes 6.
The time to go from confirmed to scheduled is 21 days +/- 14. This variability makes sense because it is an indication of how full the production queue is along with parts availability. Once the truck is scheduled I would assume that a spot in the production line some time in the future is assigned. To keep from disrupting production I would assume that all parts are expected to be available before the truck requires them in the production line.
Once scheduled it typically takes 18 days +/- 3 to go into production. My truck took only 13 days demonstrating that 6 my not be enough data points.
I typically takes 3 days +/- 1 day to build the truck.
This is the point at which huge variability starts. I assume that there is a person or group that is scheduling truck on ships and rail road cars to specific locations. That entity is concerned with filling that train / boat so trucks are shipped to locations in batches. At this point I only have 4 data points because from what I know neither Chuck Vig’s truck nor my truck have not shipped yet. The process is currently taking 10 days +/- 4.
Once the truck has shipped how it needs to be shipped along with any customs clearances come into play. Also for those of us that are buying from small dealers the wait could be longer. As with the rail / boat scheduler I assume that there is a scheduler that is trying to fill a car mover from the regional distribution center to the dealer. At this point my analysis is down to 3. That currently that process flow is 19 days +/- 4 days.
Since not everyone has provided all their dates I look at how long it took from confirmed to delivered. For 2024 data with orders that were made after production started on 7/10 that only gave me 4 data points. That process flow was 74 days +/- 19.
My variability only accounts for about 70%, to account for 95% one would need to double that amount.
I also performed an analysis on the 2023 order tracking spreadsheet. For orders placed after 1/1/2023 including mine the numbers are as follows:
81 data points
Confirmed to scheduled: 25. +/- 18
Scheduled to production: 14 +/- 6
Production to built: 4 +/- 5
Built to ship. 36 +/- 37
I hope the my analysis was not a waste of the forums time. Also I need to state that I am only speculating because I do not have any relationship with Ram. Personally having the dada has kept me from bugging my sales person every few days.
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