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Treat DD Form 1085 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 1085, Domestic Freight Routing Request and Order, November 2007. Function: Domestic Freight Routing Request and Order. Because the number carries DD rather than a service prefix, the same edition covers all military departments and the defense agencies at once. Nobody issues a Navy copy or an Air Force copy.
Requirement traces to not stated; the form belongs to not stated. Everything about schedule sits below that in local instruction, which is where to ask if a date matters.
Current edition is not stated, carried as not stated. Check that against any copy you already hold before doing anything else — Department-level revisions land everywhere simultaneously, so a stale file is stale across the whole Department.
Available: PDF, across 2 pages, roughly 75 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
Take the fillable pdf unless you have a reason not to. Fillable means the boxes are real fields that accept typed text and retain it in the file. Printable means a flat blank — no fields, printer and pen only. The difference is not cosmetic: one produces a record that reproduces cleanly through scanning and forwarding, the other depends on penmanship.
Xfdl is a legacy Department format, IBM Lotus Forms, requiring the matching viewer. Its survival in DD distribution reflects how widely it was fielded across the Department, not any advantage over pdf today.
All formats are free. One operational note: save the file locally and open it in a desktop reader. Browser-embedded viewers drop field properties and lose typed data without warning.
What the form asks for
- To (name, address and zip code of routing authority).
- From (Name, address, street, city, state, and ZIP Code of Requesting Agency).
- 2. Date of request (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 3. Date shipment available for loading.
- 4. Transportation priority and required delivery date.
- 1. Requesting agency identification number.
- 5. F.O.B. Contract Terms and expiration date.
- 7. Equipment. a. Number of cars.
- 7.a. Size of cars.
- 7.a. Type of cars.
- 7.b. Number of trucks.
- 7.b. Size of trucks.
- 7.b. Type of trucks.
- 7.c. Number of barges.
- 7.c. Size of barges.
- 7.c. Type of barges.
- 7.d. Number of containers.
- 7.d. Size of containers.
- 7.d. Type of containers.
- 6. Complete commodity description, NSN, and freight nomenclature as shown in Military Freight Classification Guide System with UFC, and/or NMDC Item Number, including number and kind of packages.
- 8. Gross weight.
- 9. Total number of cubic feet.
- 10. Consignor (show actual shipper).
- 11. Consignees (Name and address).
Start by matching the printed date to not stated. Old blanks accumulate in shared folders for years. Because the Department reissues to all services in one action, nobody is still accepting the previous layout by local custom.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
Send it as not stated or local guidance specifies. Save a copy. Cross-service and cross-agency routing is normal for Department forms, and a lost original outside your own organization is harder to chase down.
Look up cross-referenced forms by series and number. DD numbering is unified across the Department, which removes the usual step of identifying which service issued the thing.
Prefix before number. A DA citation and a DD citation in the same instruction point at separate systems — one Army, administered by an Army proponent, one Department-wide under not stated — and there is no correspondence between them at any number.
Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when notice language is amended. None of that reaches you. Checking not stated at download is the entire defence, and it is cheaper than repeating a submission.
This page publishes a Defense document and explains its contents. It does not advise, does not rule on applicability, and determines nothing about how a completed form will be treated. Direct such questions to not stated, to the servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1085?
- DD Form 1085, Domestic Freight Routing Request and Order, November 2007
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?