MOOOOVES the first few RHO's have been INVOICED and moved to "K" status's.
This means that the dealership starts paying for the vehicles NOW and they have bene released from the grips of the body vendor.
These customers MAY get a email from Ram saying "your vehicle has shipped" or see their tracker bar go to BUILT or SHIPPED. Technically everything starting with a K status is listed as "shipping" now this is to the benefit of RAM because that's when we get invoiced. In fact, I didn't even see it one of our accounting team had to text me and say HEY WE GOT OUR FIRST RHO INVOICE!
As this thread is growing increasingly long (I've had multiple new customers say - dude - give me the cliffnotes I can't read 50 pages) I may start a separate thread for ACTUALLY shipped trucks and talk all things timing there. But for now, I'll share the following:
SHIPPED does not mean a boat, it means a combination of trains, storage lots, and carrier trucks.
SHIPPED does not mean that it has actually started moving, it means that it is now ALLOWED to start moving, and is in the hands the SHIPPING people, not the body vendor people.
We will never, ever, be given an eta of an actual day that the vehicle is expected to get to the dealership.
The best piece of data we have is when it actually does get on a train, we at least know the ETA of that train getting to the last rail stop (for us that's Port Allen) then we can estimate it gets to the dealership based on micro trends to what is going on there recently. Even if we DID know the exact date it was coming, we still recommend not booking any travel arrangements until we have our hands on the vehicle and get through at least the first review of condition.
Much more info to come - but for now some data that is promising!
| MARK DODGE RHO ORDERS AS OF 10/25 | | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
| Date Ordered | B/C/D | D1 | Production | Invoiced | Active Orders | % Progress |
| April | 39 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 42 | 7.1% |
| May | 131 | 6 | 20 | 3 | 160 | 18.1% |
| June | 59 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 67 | 11.9% |
| July | 47 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 56 | 16.1% |
| August | 57 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 61 | 6.6% |
| September | 36 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 45 | 20.0% |
| October | 34 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 36 | 5.6% |
| Total | 403 | 9 | 48 | 7 | 467 | 13.7% |
