Day: July 17, 2021

Ford Might Ask Dealers to Install Chips in Unfinished Cars

By Betty C. Morrow 1 week ago
Photo credit: Ford

Photo credit: Ford

  • Ford is reportedly considering a plan to ship vehicles to dealerships without the crucial semiconductor chips installed, with the dealers completing the vehicles when new chips arrive.

  • Ford would provide training for service technicians to install the chips and would compensate dealerships for the extra labor.

  • Ford has been storing unfinished vehicles at lots in several states but is apparently low on space and wants to keep factories running.

Ford is considering a new plan to alleviate the buildup of unfinished vehicles sitting in lots across the country as a result of the global semiconductor chip shortage. According to Automotive News, Ford is currently debating a proposal to ship vehicles that are still missing the chips to dealerships, shifting the onus for installing the chips—once supplies are replenished—onto the dealers. Ford has been manufacturing vehicles without the semiconductors and storing them in lots in several states,

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Car dealerships have turned ‘cutthroat’ amid a buying frenzy and dwindling car inventories

By Betty C. Morrow 1 week ago
Car Dealership

  • The frenzied car market is pitting car salespeople against one another, Bloomberg reported.

  • New and used car prices have skyrocketed during the pandemic amid a shortage of vehicles.

  • Some dealers are even shelling out to buy leased vehicles years before the end of their term.

  • See more stories on Insider’s business page.

The pandemic has upended the market for new and used cars, sending prices skyrocketing and inventories dwindling.

A buying frenzy – coupled with soaring prices and a historically low supply of vehicles – has turned car salespeople into enemies, one dealership employee told Bloomberg.

“It’s really cutthroat,” Jared Luner, a salesman at Columbia Honda in Missouri, told the outlet. “Normally we’re all friends and coworkers, but right now, when someone pulls up, it’s a little edgy.”

Luner said he recently had a fellow salesperson sell a vehicle out from under him. Hawking cars was always a

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Illinois Lawyer General Residence Web Page

By Betty C. Morrow 1 week ago

Along with the Comptroller General, these officials comprise GAO’s Executive Committee. The Control Document Index includes BLM documents that have an result on or have affected the control, limitation, or restriction of public land and assets. CDI documents have been kept on microfilm since the 1950’s, but are now being scanned and linked to existing data information from BLM’s LR2000 database. Federal Land Patents offer researchers a source of data on the initial transfer of land titles from the Federal authorities to people. In addition to verifying title transfer, this information will enable the researcher to associate a person with a specific location and time . We have a wide range of Land Patents on our website, including Cash Entry, Homestead and Military Warrant patents. Welcome to the Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records Automation website.

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