Sigma Safety
Member
Hi all,
I'd be very interested in hearing feedback from professional upfitters on this board re: factory upfitting of police vehicles. By that I mean Ford supplying Ready-For-The-Road packages, etc.
What we've experienced here is that quite a few of the police agencies are ordering these pre-done packages on their vehicles. That means that the customer buys very little from us. Whereas they used to buy a complete vehicles' worth of stuff from us, now it's basically a lightbar (and prisoner cage, etc). We lose the corner LEDs, siren, siren speaker, and all the other 'stuff' that Ford puts in the vehicles, which amounts to a loss of a couple thousand dollars of revenue per vehicle.
Thinking longer term, do you see this as a threat to upfitters in general? It's not just Ford, but Dodge and to a lesser extent, GM as well.
If you agree that this is a threat, then how do we counter this?
Thoughts welcome. Sorry if this is in the wrong forum.
Thanks.
I'd be very interested in hearing feedback from professional upfitters on this board re: factory upfitting of police vehicles. By that I mean Ford supplying Ready-For-The-Road packages, etc.
What we've experienced here is that quite a few of the police agencies are ordering these pre-done packages on their vehicles. That means that the customer buys very little from us. Whereas they used to buy a complete vehicles' worth of stuff from us, now it's basically a lightbar (and prisoner cage, etc). We lose the corner LEDs, siren, siren speaker, and all the other 'stuff' that Ford puts in the vehicles, which amounts to a loss of a couple thousand dollars of revenue per vehicle.
Thinking longer term, do you see this as a threat to upfitters in general? It's not just Ford, but Dodge and to a lesser extent, GM as well.
If you agree that this is a threat, then how do we counter this?
Thoughts welcome. Sorry if this is in the wrong forum.
Thanks.