I just ordered my 2017 F250 6.7 and have been haunting this forum about delivery wait times and tracking the unit on the train etc. My dealer also informed me that a lot of the wait time is after it is rolled off the assembly line. There has to be enough trucks in the lot headed my way before they load on the train cars, then it goes to San Francisco Bay area and sits on a lot waiting for enough trucks to load on the transport truck to head to Reno.

A few years ago I bought a new Corvette and I had an option of taking delivery of it at the factory in Kentucky. (saving the shipping costs).

It seems to me if enough of us were to put requests into Ford we could possibly make this an option. I mean we are all drooling to get our trucks and the wait time is killing us.

I live in Nevada and it would be great to pick it up at the factory and drive it home to break it in.

You got to figure for the $1195 destination charge on these units, we could save money to fly back, diesel to drive home and a couple nights in a motel and still save a few bucks and enjoy the ride.

Last I questioned the dealer on the $1195 destination charge, as I was looking at a Dodge Ram and the destination charge on one is $1195 coming out of Mexico.
Also looked at a GMC and it was $1195 destination charge coming out of Indiana.
So they all found a way to make a few more bucks on us. Okay done with that rant.

So, what to you all think?

 

Unfortunately, not gonna happen. I've tried for that and a little more, but just ain't gonna happen.

 

The guys who work at the plant and buy from the dealer across the street have to pay the same destination charge as the rest of us. I'm sure the Corvette isn't saving you any real money by adding a rebate for a plant tour, it's just a neat way of marketing. I'm not sure what the accounting reason is for itemizing it on the invoice. Some states allow dealers to market prices excluding the charge, and others keep it in the sale price. If you're from the latter than you're less likely to ever even question it as you won't see it other than on the window sticker.

Also, why would Ford want to set up an entire customer pick up system with all it's cost just so they can make less money? It would likely end up being a wash.

 

It would be a logistical nightmare to take delivery of a new Super Duty at the factory. It's OK for the Corvette, since the plant produces so (relatively) few vehicles. But, to do the PDI and make delivery available at the factory for that many Super Duty buyers is just not realistic. It would definitely be cool though!

Let's say Ford sells 300k Super Duties / year. There are 260 week days in a year. If 10% of Super Duty trucks are order and people wanted to take delivery at the plant, that's 115 trucks delivered personally per day. That's a lot of extra staff at KTP to handle the work that dealers handle. Heck, if only 1% took that option, it would still be 12 trucks/day. That may not seem like much until you have to have the staff to do the PDI and get these trucks ready to deliver, and have a place to make it all go down. Don't forget the paperwork!

 

If I picked it up from KTP how would they have a chance to ding my doors on the convoy truck? lol

 

Okay, I will go to my room.........

 

Now thats a good point never consider that into the scenario!

 

My father in law worked at GM Oshawa Ontario .
Cars and trucks would arrive from the plant just two away. They still charged the full pop
On shipping.

 

Sorry* two miles away *

 

Picking up at KTP would be pretty awesome, but I agree with others that it would be a huge nightmare with logistics.

 

Better check that invoice as the shipping fee does not go away, many sales folks will tell you it does, but it does not....




This is the dome that had the sinkhole in it.

If you want to see a delivery, its streamed on the net: Delivery 2 ? National Corvette Museum

 

We just visited the museum this summer. It was painful looking at those demolished Corvettes.

 

Shipping costs are computed on an AVERAGE basis, the delivery charge is a negotiated national average rate . Confused? A good example is mailing a letter. Mail one to your neighbor across the street and mail one from the east coast to the west coast, it costs the same. The cost is determined on an overall average. As far as the Vette, you still pay destination charges. The car is taken from the plant, loaded on a truck just as if it were going to California, and then driven across the street and unloaded at the National Corvette Museum.

 

BINGO...I remember when I ordered, thinking I was save a few shekels by picking it up in Bowling Green, but LOL, no not to be the case.

It was my "wife to be" first real date, we flew from Miami to Nashville and drove back to Nashville...I was in Miami on a consulting assignment.


There was a special on TV a doc on how they recovered the vettes and which ones got restored and which ones did not, it was a very interesting show...

 

How would you ever get that critical Cilajet coating your truck *needs* if you got it from KTP? Only your dealer can provide such amazingly beneficial things like this...

or VIN etching!

lol.

I would like to pick mine up too.