[Keith Seymore]

So - the purpose of the above example was to show what the "902" means.

But - there are some other nuances buried in there, that I put there on purpose, that I would like to discuss briefly:

a) Vehicle order numbers: those are real live actual dealer order numbers. That's how they look in terms of alphanumerics, and in order (all jumbled up). I've never seen any kind of rhyme or reason (or intelligence) in how the order numbers are constructed.

b) PVI - is the primary tracking number prior to GA and is established after the dealer order number is received at the plant and released for production. The vehicle cabs and boxes were built in PVI order through the body shop but shuffled going into paint, due to repair, rework or part availability.

c) GA sequence - the cab and box get shuffled again, coming out of paint before dropping into trim/final. This is again due to any repair or rework or part availability, but additionally to balance the workload for the people in trim and final. Said differently, you can't have too many air conditioning, manual trans, cab roof marker lights, dually boxes, etc (high work content) vehicles in a row. Gotta spread 'em out a bit.

d) Notice how the VINs increment up one by one within a brand. That is not always the case but I have left it that way for the purposes of this example.

e) Notice how there is a GMC every 9th or 11th job, and a Cadillac every 20th job. That was intentional. The VIN sequence reflects the production volume of that brand built, too, ie: at this point 200,000 Chevy's have been built (317388 minus 100001), but only 20,000 GMCs (521102 minus 500001) and only 10,000 Cadillacs (610101 minus 600001).

f) Those vehicle owners are for pre-production internal users. For regular production that would be the actual ultimate customer (Keith Seymore, or Bruceman, or DavisChevy, etc)

Just a reminder: on my truck the GA build sequence number was "87" but my VIN ends in "317388".

K