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Notice the two date ranges shown on the Canadian site.

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I think it's the distance from Dearborn to your dealer location that dictates the ETA window. My dealer is about 150 miles from Dearborn. My window is never bigger than 6 days. My dealer says that my truck will be delivered on a transporter. If the dealer is in California and transported by rail, the window could be several weeks.
 
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I think it's the distance from Dearborn to your dealer location that dictates the ETA window. My dealer is about 150 miles from Dearborn. My window is never bigger than 6 days. My dealer says that my truck will be delivered on a transporter. If the dealer is in California and transported by rail, the window could be several weeks.
It will go by rail to California depot, held for convoy transport, could be several weeks.
 
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Yeah we are already using the US version, or at least I always have. Just today my dealer info was wiped from the page.
OK, another excuse, I noticed the trackers were performing very slow this morning while I was doing my morning research, last year while I and @rlbussard were working a research project at times this would happen and the dealer data would temporarily disappear, probably due to database maintenance, eventually it returns.

Interestingly, yours is still missing the details while another VIN is showing the data, again eventually it will correct.
 
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Mine has been missing the dealer details since the stop-ship order, for what it's worth.
 

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Gonna be exciting when one of us actually takes delivery of a truck post hold, let’s all hope that early April is really an accurate estimate. I’ll believe it when I see it!
 

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I just checked today (3/20) and my estimated delivery still says 3/12 to 3/18. The fact that it hasn’t updated to a later date seems promising that’s it’ll show up any day now. But who knows.

A good friend of mine who is in the trucking industry had an interesting take on this issue. He said the fact that EVs are heavier than ICE vehicles is causing some issues in the shipping process. Each truck and trailer has a maximum weight load. For ICE vehicles, the typical car hauler can load X number of vehicles on the trailer for delivery. They’re usually paid by the number of vehicles delivered. Since EVs are heavier, the same car hauler trailer might only to able to transport (X -1) or even (X - 2) vehicles per load. So the shipping company gets paid less to haul a trailer full of EVs compared to a trailer full of ICE vehicles. This isn’t true in every situation and it’s a little difficult to compare apples to apples, but apparently it is an issue that’s affecting some EV shipments.
 

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I like how I get different delivery dates based on which menu on Ford.com I use to check.

My Accounts --> Reservations & Orders -->
3/10-3/16
Ford F-150 Lightning ✅ 1/9/2023 Lightning Build Week Group (MY2023) 1679345160321


My Account --> Check Order Status -->
3/18-3/31
Ford F-150 Lightning ✅ 1/9/2023 Lightning Build Week Group (MY2023) 1679345114246
 

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Gonna be exciting when one of us actually takes delivery of a truck post hold, let’s all hope that early April is really an accurate estimate. I’ll believe it when I see it!

What about April?

Did you hear some news that I didn't?
 

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My estimated delivery just jumped from 3/10-3-24 to 4/8-4/21 :(

My truck was built late January, my estimate always moved back every 3 days... now it stopped all together. It's been stuck on 3-10 to 3-16 ETA fir 11 days now. I'm really disappointed in Ford Motor Company. This is a HUGE FAIL of communication on their part. :censored:
 

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I like how I get different delivery dates based on which menu on Ford.com I use to check.

My Accounts --> Reservations & Orders -->
3/10-3/16
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My Account --> Check Order Status -->
3/18-3/31
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Mine also are different. The reservation page still shows 3/14-3/20.
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