Lightning production expected to be 1,000 trucks a week starting mid-March with Job1

Pioneer74 · Feb 2, 2022

rdr854 said:
Is this schedule just for fleet orders or does it also include retail orders? If not the latter, when do you expect Ford to announce the production schedule for retail orders?

Job 1 is for all orders.

I've heard that we are expected to start producing about 1000 trucks (retail + fleet) a week starting in mid-March, beginning with the mannequin orders.

Ford is serious about producing as many as we can. They moved the Job1 date up a month.

Griddlez · Feb 2, 2022

I think (everyone's?) order sheets are saying Job#2 for their lightnings. You explained this to me earlier in this thread, that all lightnings are Job#2 because it's a major change to the 2022 F-150 year. Is it safe to assume that everyone, regardless of their order sheets being listed as Job#2, will still get scheduled in this Job#1 window? (I guess I am little confused)

LightningShow · Feb 2, 2022

Pioneer74 said:
Job1 is for all orders.

I've heard that we are expected to start producing about 1000 trucks (retail + fleet) a week starting in mid-March, beginning with the mannequin orders.

Ford is serious about producing as many as we can. They moved the Job1 date up a month.

That's great news!

KevinC · Feb 2, 2022

Pioneer74 said:
Job1 is for all orders.

I've heard that we are expected to start producing about 1000 trucks a week starting in mid-March, beginning with the mannequin orders.

Ford is serious about producing as many as we can. They moved the Job1 date up a month.

1000 a week is very encouraging. How far out do they set those kinds of goals? Is that the goal for March/April? Is there a chance that target goes to 1500 week by May? 2000 by June etc?

Pioneer74 · Feb 2, 2022

KevinC said:
1000 a week is very encouraging. How far out do they set those kinds of goals? Is that the goal for March/April? Is there a chance that target goes to 1500 week by May? 2000 by June etc?

I only heard about the numbers for mid-March. They are also doubling the size of the assembly plant. Not sure how long that will take to complete, but that will substantially increase production too.

adoublee · Feb 2, 2022

Pioneer74 said:
I only heard about the numbers for mid-March. They are also doubling the size of the assembly plant. Not sure how long that will take to complete, but that will substantially increase production too.

Sorry if this is to far off of the thread topic, but does anything about the production details you are aware of suggest factory options like bed liner will be better or worse than with ICE F150 that is rumored to get delayed by these options?

TaxmanHog · Feb 2, 2022

That is awesome news, projecting at a steady pace of 1000/week until end of production year [9/30 ?] would be about 29,000 total units if commodities can be supplied from the vendors. Then more so when the plant expansion is completed.

theblunden · Feb 2, 2022

Is this 1,000/week estimate including fleet vehicles or just retail orders?

Pioneer74 · Feb 2, 2022

theblunden said:
Is this 1,000/month estimate including fleet vehicles or just retail orders?

All.

Ccarm6 · Feb 2, 2022

theblunden said:
Is this 1,000/month estimate including fleet vehicles or just retail orders?

1000/week, so ~30K or so for MY22? Fleet+retail.

thanks for the insider info Pioneer74!

LightningShow · Feb 2, 2022

TaxmanHog said:
That is awesome news, projecting at a steady pace of 1000/week until end of production year [9/30 ?] would be about 29,000 total units if commodities can be supplied from the vendors. Then more so when the plant expansion is completed.

I've never been involved in vehicle manufacturing but in my experience in mfg scheduling the throughput usually ramps up over the first month or two by 25-50%. A lot of it is simply increase uptime of equipment as you get the bugs worked out. If they're starting at 1000/wk I wouldn't be surprised to hear it's 1500 by summer. Pioneer74 can obviously comment more specifically about Ford scheduling.

theblunden · Feb 2, 2022

Ccarm6 said:
1000/week, so ~30K or so for MY22? Fleet+retail.

thanks for the insider info Pioneer74!

Yup I meant week lol good catch ?

gorwell · Feb 3, 2022

Pioneer74 said:
Job1 is for all orders.

I've heard that we are expected to start producing about 1000 trucks (retail + fleet) a week starting in mid-March, beginning with the mannequin orders.

Ford is serious about producing as many as we can. They moved the Job1 date up a month.

Thanks for the inside info!

Assuming this is true; would this move up delivery expectations?

Wave #1 had ~20+weeks Delivery, wave #2 said ~24+weeks .

Wave #1 @ 20 weeks was ~Early June (~1500 orders)
Wave #2 @ 24 weeks was ~Early July (Who knows, let's say 4K)

Seemingly producing ~1k a week starting April would cover both those by end of May, even with shipping some out to fleets?

- Sincerely, XLT wave 2 order hoping for May delivery

Okrecognition · Feb 3, 2022

Are all the dealer mannequins going to be produced before any customer orders or will they both be built simultaneously?

Pioneer74 · Feb 3, 2022

Okrecognition said:
Are all the dealer mannequins going to be produced before any customer orders or will they both be built simultaneously?

Before, from what I understand.

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