This year & last are completely different from other years
There are people ordering sunroofs, 360 view & the high dollar stuff, their orders will not be filled until Ram gets a truck load of computer chips that are current not available
They just started building Ram 1500 new style on September 8th
They started building Ram 2500s on September 9th
They are not building any dealership stock
They are only building Customer Orders, known as a SOLD ORDER
Likely your name will be on the bottom of the paper work
Hopefully you will all see a STATUS of D1 real soon,
D1 means Gateway, that means it has a date & time that the Rams Frame will be laid on the Assembly Line Track
At almost the same time all the sheet metal makes its way along a different track & gets dipped in corrosion resistant bath & then painted.
Further down the line the sheet metal is lowered onto the frame which already has the engine & everything on it
Once the frame is laid, it takes about 16 hours for your Ram to be assembled with all the stock pieces.
It will get the spray liners, tonneau covers, bed steps, nerf bars and all those other addons after it leaves the assembly line