Who can retrieve your rail car number once shipped?

[NotApplicable]

Wondering if any dealership employee (not _only_ one from my dealership) would be able to find the shipping information (rail car number) for my Bronco.

Anyone know?

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[mtap]

It has come to this?

 

[Commodore]

Yep!
…mine has been on “rail” for almost 2 weeks!

 

[DaBronCo33]

Who cares?

 

[Commodore]

Who cares?

What?

 

[NotApplicable]

It has come to this?

It’s apparently pretty common, and easy to track once you have the info (according to years of other FoMoCo and GM forums).

Also it would be very helpful for me to have more precision than a weeklong delivery estimate window, which is how big the window Ford gave me was when I received my “built” notification. I need to get a check mailed from the CU, so want to have that ready in case it beats the estimate. But, I don’t want to request it too early or else if it is delayed significantly, the check will expire… would be a lot easier to facilitate with tracking!

And aside from the logical stuff, you all aren’t being honest if you think you won’t want to know exactly where your rig is if possible!

 

[KaneNorth]

It has come to this?

I work at a mine and we have live maps of all the incoming and outgoing trains to and from our rail load out and the port. If we can track them with such precision I don’t see why tracking a different kind of freight would be much different.

 

[ZackDanger]

 

[NotApplicable]

I am told this information populates in some sort of “Vehicle Visibility Tool.”

So I guess the question I’m asking is: can any dealership look up any vehicle in this tool, or would it only be limited to the originating dealership?

Asking because my salesman takes a long ass time to reply and there are so many friendly dealership employees on here

 

[ReimundKrohn]

Yep!
…mine has been on “rail” for almost 2 weeks!

Unfortunately, that is typically the case with rail shipments. There are only a few intermodal hubs where the vehicles can be offloaded and shipments consolidated for dispatch via truck to the end destination. 3-4 weeks in transit is normal; and I know we (at work) have seen worse. The only thing good about rail shipments, is the price - but you DO get what you pay for.

 

[NotApplicable]

Any dealership should be able to look this up, the should referring to their actual level of knowledge, some don’t even know it exists. Any Ford employee will be able to look this up as well if you know anyone.

Nice! Now time to find such an employee…

 

[Ksjrb03]

Rail gonna take a couple more weeks. Have some patience. And don’t bother our nice dealers around here with this waste of their time request, we don’t want to run them off. You have a dealer this goes to them.

 

[GravyTrain]

Imagine if your Bronco was in a massive railroad crash. Wonder if Ford would put its replacement at the back of the line

 

[Desert_6G]

When I had my Ranger ordered there was an plant employee that had access to that info over at Ranger5g. He was able to give a current location of the rail car from a vin. When I asked about mine he told me it was in "X" city near me. And the next day it arrived at the dealer.

 

[NotApplicable]

When I had my Ranger ordered there was an plant employee that had access to that info over at Ranger5g. He was able to give a current location of the rail car from a vin. When I asked about mine he told me it was in "X" city near me. And the next day it arrived at the dealer.

Nice, sounds like (as expected) it’s an easy ask!

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