Whoa, there fella. I don't think You're going to get on a rail car the day after the ship docks.
Even though the ship docked yesterday, the date change occurs when the vehicle is physically scanned. That's usually the day it's unloaded, but isn't always that day. I've certainly seen it scanned before it gets unloaded.
The only thing you should assume is that your vehicle is being unloaded on or around 4/4. We'll be able to tell exactly which day it was by looking at the import records.
Now comes the wait for the rail car. As
@agogley has noted, each car goes through 'work started' and 'work completed' events during this period. We're not sure what that work is, but while it will not impact your
Last updated date, it will delay getting onto that rail car.
I'd have to go through this thread to look at my posts again to determine which status from VinView triggered a last update field change on the Lincoln customer site. There was an issue with our ship because it anchored then it was moved to the berth then unloaded. Then it wasn't unloaded immediately as far as we can tell. We discussed all these events in detail at the time but I'm not going to invest the time to go through it again now. Maybe some other time,. But here is what my Vinview has.
1/17/2024 - "Vessel Arrived at Port of Discharge" (Portland)
1/19/2024 - "Vessel Estimated Time of Arrival" (this was change due to ship being anchored)
1/19/2024 - "Vessel Arrived at Port of Discharge"
1/19/2024 - "Full Container Discharged at Port of Discharge"
1/22/2024 - "Vehicle Received"
1/22/2024 - "Work Started" (none of us knows what this work is but if you research many manufacturers add final trip, etc. at the receiving facilities)
02/02/2024 - "Work Completed"
02/8/2024 - "Compound exit"
02/8/2024 - "Arrived for pickup - UP Portland Barn" (UP is Union Pacific but the berth is serviced by BNSF)
02/8/2024 - "
VIN Loaded on railcar." (This is BNSF)
02/08/2024 - "Departed Pickup - UP Portland"
02/18/2024 - "Interchange Arrived" (Kansas City)
02/18/2024 - Interchange complete (transfer from BNSF to NS)
02/24/2024 - "Arrived" (Jacksonville - this is railcar delivery location for Florida)
02/24/2024 - "Arrived for delivery - Ford"
02/25/2025 - Actual Trip Leg Departed Destination (This is a train entry)
02/25/2025 - "Arrived"
02/25/2025 - "Railcar spotted"
02/25/2025 - "
VIN Unloaded from Railcar"
02/25/2024 - Vehicle Received
02/26/2024 - "Arrived for Pickup - Jacksonville"
02/28/2024 - "Departed" (carrier metrologistics - this appears to be the trucking logistics company)
02/29/2024 - "Delivered" (to dealer but I also picked it up this day).