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Put in park By Jordyn Grzelewski, Kalea Hall and Riley Beggin - The Detroit News Ford’s Dearborn truck plant has lost production of more than 19,200 planned F-150s and F-150 Raptors. General Motors employees work on the assembly line April 26, 2019, at Fairfax Assembly & Stamping Plant in Kansas City, Kansas. Fairfax Assembly & Stamping Plant has been down since early February because of the chip woes. Hundreds of Ford trucks fill a parking lot near I-96 between Southfield and Evergreen, in Detroit, Michigan on April 25. A global semiconductor shortage has forced car manufacturers to stockpile unfinished vehicles. The global semiconductor chip shortage arguably is unlike anything the automotive industry has weathered. It is poised to drag on for months longer, cutting into the profits of automakers and their suppliers, delivering uncertainty and lost wages to autoworkers, and giving consumers fewer choices and higher prices on dealership lots.