What is DD Form 1085? It is a Department of Defense form titled DD Form 1085, Domestic Freight Routing Request and Order, November 2007, and its job is straightforward: Domestic Freight Routing Request and Order. That single line covers most of what people want to know before they download it.
Does it apply to your branch? Yes. The DD prefix means Department of Defense, not one service, so the same blank serves the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force and the Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction. There is no Army version and no Navy version to search for.
Who is behind it? not stated maintains the form, and not stated is the publication that requires it. Those two names answer most questions about why you are being asked to submit anything at all.
How current is this? Edition not stated, publisher status not stated. That is the version described throughout this page.
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).
Download the form
Which files are here? These: PDF. How much work is involved? 2 pages, about 75 entry fields.
What is the difference between fillable and printable? A fillable pdf has real field boxes that accept typed text and hold it inside the file. A printable pdf is a flat blank with no fields at all, intended for a printer and a pen. Which one you have determines how you complete the form, so it is worth checking first.
Does typing matter? It does. Your completed form will probably be scanned, forwarded and filed, and typed text comes through each of those steps unchanged while handwriting degrades. If pen is your only option, block capitals give the receiving clerk a fighting chance.
Is xfdl worth downloading? Only if you have the viewer. The format comes from IBM Lotus Forms, which carried Defense form distribution for a long stretch, and no ordinary pdf application will read it.
Is there a charge? No — free, all formats. Where should you open the file? In a full pdf application on your own machine. Browser-embedded viewers handle field properties unpredictably.
Where do you start? At the top. Identification first, the substance of the entry second, certification last. Why that order? Because fields lower on the page often depend on data you established in the header, and filling out of sequence produces contradictions.
Why does the edition matter so much here? Because DD forms are revised centrally. When the Department reissues one, it reissues it for all branches simultaneously, and the field layout can shift. Compare the printed date against not stated before you type anything.
What if a specific field still puzzles you? Read the instructions printed on the form, then not stated. Which wins if they differ? The directive.
Where does the completed form go? To the office named in not stated or in your organization's local procedure. Should you keep a copy? Always — a scan or a saved file costs nothing and spares you the whole exercise if the original disappears.
How do you find a form referenced inside this one? By its number alone. The DD sequence runs across the entire Department, so a number identifies exactly one document regardless of which service cited it.
Why do some instructions cite both a DA and a DD form? Because the procedure touches both systems, not because the forms are related. Service forms answer to a service proponent; DD forms answer to not stated or another Department office. The sequences were never aligned.
Should you archive this file and reuse it next year? Better not. Forms are revised as directives are reissued, as data requirements shift and as statutory notice text is updated, and none of that reaches you directly. Download fresh, check the edition date.
Will your completed form be accepted? That is not a question this page can answer. What you have here is a published Department of Defense document, a description of it and instructions for filling it out. Nothing on the page is legal advice, and nothing here determines what any office does with a submission. Where do the remaining questions go? To not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office named 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?