Run the 6.7 Cummins/Ram I use for hotshot into the shop for new front hubs at a dealer I trust. Walk down the hall and chat with the sales manager and we start discussing the lack of new trucks and I tell him some dealers I see in my cross country travels have 8 - 10 empty spaces between pickups on their lots, except the Japs who still have some hefty truck inventories.
Sales manager advises that factory is taking orders for 2020 year models and he had put many on order, but the factory does give a price as yet.
So I ask the guy what is going to happen with all the 2021 models sitting at the plants while waiting on chips, and how he thinks the plants will incentivize dealers to take them when chips catch up as the 2022's will also be hitting the market in late August (if they can get the chip shortage sorted soon enough).
He advises that other than govt. mandated safety devices, prior truck systems are being "streamlined" to reduce chips in the new 2022 pickups for Dodge.
He then asked if I had ever seen a loaded Lariat model with a manual sliding bench seat, then advised "you will soon as anything they can delete chips for will be plain Jane" for the new 2022's.
Used pickup prices for 3/4 ton and up are thru the roof as no new trucks to sell. Offered me what I paid for my used Ram last year if I would trade it in on a new one but could not give a delivery date for any 2022's.
I'll stay with the ol' gal, money in the bank in my book . . . . .
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