Dealerships not receiving cars due to chip shortage

Nation wide vehicle shortage due to COVID-19 pandemic - News 11's Wiley Jawhary reports

EL CENTRO, Calif. (KYMA, KECY) - The pandemic has brought many inconveniences to daily life and shortages have hit the nation. One Ford dealership in El Centro is feeling the brunt as it has little to no cars in their lot.

El Centro Motors has lost nearly $300,000 in sales dollars in the last four months. The shortage is due to the pandemic and a lack of manufacturing.

Mike Morris is the owner at El Centro Motors, he says in his 44 years of working at dealerships, this is the biggest challenge that he has had to face.

“The shortage has been devastating on us, we have a lot of farmers who rely on us for vehicles, we have a lot of trucks on order for different farmers and we just can’t get them,” he said.

It is expected that local auto dealers will start seeing more inventory hit their lots soon.

"We can't keep servicing our customers needs, we are small, local, we give to all charities in town, we have not stopped doing that but its getting rough when we don’t have anything to sell and keep things going," he said.