Ford To Add 1,000 Workers To Truck Production
Ford has plans with the F-150.
The Blue Oval brand is looking to increase F-150 production by 50,000 units in 2026. To achieve that goal, the automaker is adding 1,000 new jobs and moving some workers over from one of its electric-vehicle plants.
Ford will keep F-150 Lighting production at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center paused and shift some of those workers over across the way to the Dearborn Truck Plant. By some, we mean all hourly Rouge Electric workers.
One reason for the move is to regain lost production from a supplier fire in September.
Ford reported a third-quarter revenue of $50.5 billion, which is a nine percent year-over-year increase. The stock price is up about 11.6 percent.
Ford has cut back on Lightning production before in order to rein in costs -- it did so for seven weeks at the end of 2024.
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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Removing workers from truck production to add workers to truck production. Ok TTAC. Sure.
My old 2015 Expedition is a great car, built on the F150 chassis. I hear the new Expedition is not. Too bad, I won’t buy one when mine wears out. If it ever does.