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Ford CEO Laments He Can’t Fill 5,000 Mechanic Jobs Paying $120K Per Year: ‘We Are in Trouble in Our Country’

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Ford has been unable to fill some 5,000 openings for mechanics despite offering a salary of $120,000 a year — prompting the company’s chief executive to warn of a dire shortage of skilled tradespeople in the US.

“We are in trouble in our country. We are not talking about this enough,” Ford CEO Jim Farley said on an episode of the “Office Hours: Business Edition” podcast published earlier this week.

“We have over a million openings in critical jobs, emergency services, trucking, factory workers, plumbers, electricians and tradesmen.” . . .

The $120,000 pay is nearly twice the average annual American salary, according to the Social Security Administration.

It takes about five years to learn the skills needed to pull a diesel engine out of a Ford Super Duty truck — and the country isn’t training enough people to do it, Farley said. (Read more from “Ford CEO Laments He Can’t Fill 5,000 Mechanic Jobs Paying $120K Per Year: ‘We Are in Trouble in Our Country’” HERE)

Biden’s ‘Green Energy’ Push Is About to Cost 8,000 Americans Their Jobs

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While President Joe Biden has heralded Ford Motor Company as an example of a U.S. entity following his dictates for a “transition” from fossil fuels to alternative (read: more expensive and less reliable) energy, it turns out the exemplar of “Made in America” might also mean “fired in America” as the company struggles to rise to Biden’s challenge while remaining profitable.

According to new reporting from Reuters, around 8,000 Ford employees’ jobs are on the chopping block as the automaker tries to shift to an electric vehicle business despite trailing successful EV producers like Elon Musk’s Tesla — a company President Biden has ignored despite its success.

The 8,000 Ford jobs in jeopardy, according to Reuters, are part of “a bid to reduce costs and intensify its focus on electric vehicles” and will be made to “Ford’s salaried workforce, as well as the Ford Blue unit created in March to run the company’s internal combustion engine operations.” The positions to be eliminated have, according to Reuters’ sources, not been finalized but the cuts “are likely to begin this summer.” (Read more from “Biden’s ‘Green Energy’ Push Is About to Cost 8,000 Americans Their Jobs” HERE)

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Ford Wants to Hide Spy Drones in Autonomous Cars

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Among the many challenges facing the autonomous car industry is how to keep an eye on the condition of the vehicles while they’re out and about.

Interior cameras, like those installed in the latest Tesla models, can make sure passengers aren’t damaging the cabin, but what about the outside of the vehicles?

Ford, which co-owns the Argo AI autonomous car company that’s planning to launch a ride-hailing service soon, has now patented a way to do just that.

The idea is to hide an inspection drone inside the trunk or even the glove compartment that would be deployed between rides to get a look at the vehicle.

The car can automatically open the glove compartment and lower a window for the drone to fly out, circle around the car taking pictures and either send them back to headquarters or use artificial intelligence to recognize damage and summon immediate help itself, if necessary. (Read more from “Ford Wants to Hide Spy Drones in Autonomous Cars” HERE)

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