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GM Incentivizes Dealers to Pick Up Their Own Cars and Trucks From the Factory
Story by Chris Rosales •3hGM Incentivizes Dealers to Pick Up Their Own Cars and Trucks From the Factory© Bob Johnson Chevrolet
Despite car inventory increasing and sale prices dropping, various issues are still preventing automakers from filling dealer lots with shiny new cars. For a while, the trouble was actually building and completing the cars. Now, General Motors is having trouble shipping them away from the factories. The solution? GM is paying dealers for each car that gets picked up.
Yes, dealers actually stand to save quite a bit of money by circumventing the conventional cost of shipping cars and trucks from factories. According to Automotive News, instead of paying GM to ship the vehicles directly to dealers, GM will pay dealers up to $1,050 per vehicle recovered directly from the factory. Presumably, it costs GM less to pay dealers than it does to ship every car, all while incentivizing dealers to foot a bill that is normally much larger than that.