I stopped by the Ford store and I was told that my truck is On The Way. It seems that FoMoCo has some sort of Quality Control program that involves pulling, randomly, three or four vehicles in a row off the end of the assembly line and subjecting them to a stem-to-stern inspection that is even more rigorous than the routine QC checks. My truck was one of those so selected.
At least that’s the story I got on this visit to the dealer. Someone more cynical than myself might say that this is just a line fed to a customer to sooth the ache of waiting so long…