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DD Form 1266 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 1266, Request for Special Hauling Permit, September 1998, used to Request for Special Hauling Permit. The DD prefix is the operative fact. It means one blank serves every military department — Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction — plus the defense agencies and combatant commands. No branch variant exists.
not stated is the prescribing publication and not stated the office responsible for the document. Deadlines belong to local implementing guidance, not to either of those, so a submission date is a question for the receiving office.
Edition not stated, status not stated. That comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Available: PDF, across 2 pages, roughly 144 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.
Free download, every format. Do not fill the form in a browser tab — browser pdf viewers handle interactive fields inconsistently and discard entries on close.
What the form asks for
- 9.b. time, line 1
- 9.c. state line, line 1
- 9.b. time, line 2
- 9.c. state line, line 2
- 9.b. time, line 3
- 9.b. time, line 4
- 9.c. state line, line 3
- 9.c. state line, line 4
- 12.a., description, line 1. Truck , column b., type - 2 ton, et cetera
- 12.c.1, number of trucks
- 12.d.1, registration number
- 12.e.1, height
- 12.f.1, length
- 12.g.1, length
- 12.h.1, weight, empty
- 12.c.2, number of trucks - tractors
- 12.d.2, registration number
- 12.e.2, height
- 12.f.2, length
- 12.g.2, length
- 12.h.2, weight, empty
- 12. Vehicle, column a., description, line 2. Truck - tractor, column b., type - 2 ton, et cetera
- 12. Vehicle, column a., description, line 3. Trailer, column b., type - 2 ton, et cetera
- 12.c.3, number of trailers
Edition check comes first, ahead of any entry. Compare the printed date to not stated and replace anything older. Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
Submit to the office named in not stated or in local instruction; retain a duplicate before it leaves. Joint routing often sends a DD form across organizational boundaries, and tracing one afterward is not a same-day matter.
Related forms are found by number alone. The DD sequence is one unified Department-wide series, so a cited number resolves to exactly one document with no branch qualifier needed.
Do not read across from a service number. DA numbering is Army-specific under an Army proponent; DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. The sequences are unrelated, so identical digits in each identify two different documents. Read the prefix, not the digits.
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.
What is here is the blank form and a description of it. What is not here is legal guidance or any assurance about a particular filing — this page is not the issuing authority and does not speak for one. Those questions go to not stated, to your servicing administrative office, or to the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1266?
- DD Form 1266, Request for Special Hauling Permit, September 1998
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?