ORDERING : .........................................
It does not matter what day you place an order, the dealer sends in the order at a given date, say for instance, the 11th of the month, or maybe Headquarters accepts the order on that given date.
ALLOTMENT: ......................................
A dealership can only order X amount of Rams, X amount of Jeeps, X amount of Challengers, etc.
X is determined by an average of how many of each vehicle that dealership sells in a period of time, like say for a year.
If say a dealership sells an average of 10 Rams each month for a year, Headquarters may set their Allotment at 10 Rams a month.
Now in November, for instance, they have customers come in & the total amount of the orders comes out to be 12 Rams,
Headquarters only allows 10 Rams for November & the other 2 would go to the December ordering allotment.
That is why some Orders take a Month longer to go to Chicago for instance.
( i used Chicago as a reference point, because Chicago is the biggest Way Point for vehicles traveling by freight train )
Almost all Ram 1500s, not sold to someone living in Michigan or Ontario Canada, go by freight train to a huge freight railroad yard just outside of Chicago, then it is rerouted from that point.
Almost all of the Heavy Duty Rams leave Saltillo Mexico, entering Texas at the town of Eagle Pass Texas
When the train makes its first stop in Texas, some freight cars with HD Rams are dropped off, then i think the original freight train goes to Wichita, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, some freight cars carrying Rams are dropped off at each City, but most go to Chicago & then are re-routed