They are waiting to go out until media drives them in March. Your dealer is going off the ERA listed on the order status in vinview. That tends to move around based on plant and shipping delays or issues.
Ford started Ranger Raptor production by giving every dealer 1 allocation to start with more allocations distributed later in the model year. It looks that time has come for February allocation. I don't think Ford has told dealer how many more they will receive for the rest of the model year but...
Ford revealed the Maverick in June and had deliveries in December. 6 months is excellent. If the debate is how long its taken some people to get their Maverick, I think they did good. There is about 3k Ranger orders unscheduled, Maverick and Bronco received over 100k orders each. I don't think...
Ford wants to make sure each dealer receives one. Once they are given and they know the rest of 24MY Raptor production they will allocate the rest of production based on a formula of their choosing.
Ford did let us know that they will be scheduling in July for production dates of week or 9/4 to week of 9/25 (September production). A couple of weeks ago they said they were going to start production the week of 8/14 then it moved to 8/21.