Tons of Rivians & Amazon Vans ready to ship... photos [removed at request of Rivian]

[Lysdexic]

The person who took these pics - his main job responsibility is to smoke one Marlboro in each vehicle. This may take some time.

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[junkanoo]

Rivian has rail service directly to the plant in normal. They would load them on car carriers at the plant, be routed regionally and transported via car carrier to service centers when local.

Good point. So ... I'll revise ...

So ... the thought is that Rivian is delaying shipping by car carriers directly to Service Centers so that they can:

1. Load R1Ts onto train cars at the plant to
2. To have more potential delays while the train car waits to get transferred to another train heading near a Service Center where
3. They get unloaded off of Rail Cars quickly (if car carriers are readily available locally) to
4. Load them onto car carriers to
5. Deliver them to Service Centers

To potentially save a few bucks on shipping while increasing potential delivery handling damage at the time your stock is tanking and every financial analyst and his brother wants to know how many customer deliveries have been made.

Interesting.

 

[rivian_panda]

I'm willing flying to normal.. and picking up my truck and driving it back myself.... Trucks are ready please deliver .... I'm getting restless.

 

[Dirty_B]

I see my Rivian golf cart! Can’t wait until I pull up the the tee blocks in that bad boy!
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Can't tell if that is Paul Blart "Rivian lot Cop" chasing the OP down and telling them to get the frick out and stop taking pictures?

 

[rodhx]

It's always amazing to me how many hundreds of Teslas are usually sitting here in the Birmingham rail facility waiting to be loaded on car carriers and trucked away given the closest Tesla stores are three hours away in neighboring states. I see trucks loaded with them almost every afternoon on my commute home.

 

[9527]

Are they ready to ship? Or are they waiting on a chip, etc?

Hopefully this isn't Bronco Dirt Mountain Part Deux.

My thought exactly. The first thing I thought of is the lot full of Broncos.

 

[AdamsFan1983]

Good point. So ... I'll revise ...

So ... the thought is that Rivian is delaying shipping by car carriers directly to Service Centers so that they can:

1. Load R1Ts onto train cars at the plant to
2. To have more potential delays while the train car waits to get transferred to another train heading near a Service Center where
3. They get unloaded off of Rail Cars quickly (if car carriers are readily available locally) to
4. Load them onto car carriers to
5. Deliver them to Service Centers

To potentially save a few bucks on shipping while increasing potential delivery handling damage at the time your stock is tanking and every financial analyst and his brother wants to know how many customer deliveries have been made.

Interesting.

Put another way "I acknowledge my ignorance, and hereby reframe my arguement to consist of a vaguer and more subjective basis that you cannot possibly hope to transparently disassemble for all to see."

 

[Scoiatael]

This explains the influx of guide contacts. Plenty of trucks built, just figuring out how to ship them all.

 

[EVTrucking]

Sure would love to hear how Rivian envisions "delivering" (not building) about 15,000 R1's in 2022. Taking this approach of bloating then purging inventory is the worst way to do it. And it really defies all logic when you work in a business that makes things except perhaps holiday decorations.

I cannot help but wonder if a good portion of the R1s are waiting for a part or a fix.

 

[Kmann1994]

Looks like Rivian didn’t learn much about distribution and delivery last quarter.

Yeah dude, you definitely know more about distribution and delivery going on at Rivian than Rivian themselves does, said some guy named Jeff from CA!

 

[Kmann1994]

Sure would love to hear how Rivian envisions "delivering" (not building) about 15,000 R1's in 2022. Taking this approach of bloating then purging inventory is the worst way to do it. And it really defies all logic when you work in a business that makes things except perhaps holiday decorations.

What are you talking about? This is what happens at every automaker. Look at pics of any Tesla Gigafactory and you can see parking lots full of cars waiting to be shipped out. Production will likely always outpace deliveries.

 

[junkanoo]

Good point. So ... I'll revise ...

So ... the thought is that Rivian is delaying shipping by car carriers directly to Service Centers so that they can:

1. Load R1Ts onto train cars at the plant to
2. To have more potential delays while the train car waits to get transferred to another train heading near a Service Center where
3. They get unloaded off of Rail Cars quickly (if car carriers are readily available locally) to
4. Load them onto car carriers to
5. Deliver them to Service Centers

To potentially save a few bucks on shipping while increasing potential delivery handling damage at the time your stock is tanking and every financial analyst and his brother wants to know how many customer deliveries have been made.

Interesting.

Put another way "I acknowledge my ignorance, and hereby reframe my arguement to consist of a vaguer and more subjective basis that you cannot possibly hope to transparently disassemble for all to see."

Silence,

Having a bad day? Nothing remotely vague about my post. However, if you disagree, bring forth your own counter-argument.

Otherwise, just be your first name.

 

[Zoidz]

Adding to the logistics problems is the shortage of truck drivers. A lot of the trucking companies are offering $100,000 salaries for drivers. I think they should ship by train for the longer distances, like the west coast.

You would think so, right? But this article popped across my news feed a few days ago.....who knows what is happening at this point - "strange days indeed" !?!?!?

"After two years of COVID-induced havoc in global freight markets, volatility has started to abate. FreightWaves’ view of the market has become clearer, and the picture isn’t pretty. We think another sharp, painful downturn in the U.S. truckload market is imminent, and it could be as bad as 2019.

March has been unusually soft in the truckload freight market, according to the SONAR Outbound Tender Volume Index (OTVI). Because this index measures actual truckload tenders in the contract market, it provides a very reliable indicator of market direction. "

 

[ARMadventures]

I was exticed to see this post, and hopful for some R1S vehicles in the pictures.... none! (sigh...)

I drove through the Plymouth, MI lot this moring, and there were about 30 R1T's sitting there and 8ish EDV's. Didn't look like much change from last Friday. Still one compass yellow sitting in the lot. ALL BM interior.

 

[DJG]

Sure would love to hear how Rivian envisions "delivering" (not building) about 15,000 R1's in 2022. Taking this approach of bloating then purging inventory is the worst way to do it. And it really defies all logic when you work in a business that makes things except perhaps holiday decorations.

They never committed to delivering any specific number, only produce. The market is primarily concerned with production, as delivery is a relative given once it's produced.

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