Which document is this? DD Form 1162-1, official title DD Form 1162-1, Schedule of Services and Rates for Household Goods, September 1998. What does it do? It exists to Schedule of Services and Rates For Household Goods. Everything on this page builds on those two facts.
Will you need a different form because of where you serve? No. DD forms are Department-wide instruments, and that scope is what separates them from service publications. One edition, all branches, defense agencies included.
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.
Is this the right edition? The current one is dated not stated, and the publisher carries it as not stated. Check that against whatever copy you already have before going further.
What the form asks for
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- 1. Basic ordering agreement number.
- 2. Modification number.
- 3. Effective date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 4. Service performed. c. Rate. (1) Item I, packing (per cwt).
- (2) Rate - Item II - Special service. (a) Wardrobes (each).
- (2) (b) Rate - Inventory of high value items (cost per carton).
- (3) Rate - Item III - Drayage (per cwt). Zone 1.
- Drayage, zone 2.
- Drayage, zone 3.
- Drayage, zone 4.
- Drayage, zone 5.
- Drayage, zone 6.
- (4) Rate - Item IV - Handling in (per cwt).
- (5) Rate - Item V - Storage (per cwt. per month).
- (6) Rate - Item VI - Handling out (per cwt).
- (7) Rate - Item VII - Delivery (per cwt). Zone 1.
- Delivery, zone 2.
- Delivery, zone 3.
- Delivery, zone 4.
- Delivery, zone 5.
- Delivery, zone 6.
- (8) Rate - Item VIII - Unpacking (per cwt).
- 5. Service Area.
Download the form
What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 1 pages with roughly 33 fields to complete.
Why do two kinds of pdf exist? Because two kinds of user exist. One completes the form on screen and forwards a file; the other prints a blank and fills it by hand. The fillable release has interactive boxes, the printable release is a static image of the same page.
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.
Do you pay for these? No. Free download, every format. What should you avoid? Filling the form inside a browser tab; the fields frequently do not save.
Can you skip around the form? Better not to. The layout runs identification, then content, then certification, and entries near the bottom frequently take their meaning from what sits above them.
What if your copy is old? Replace it. Check the date printed on the form against not stated. Old blanks circulate for years in shared folders, and because a DD revision lands across the whole Department at once, the receiving office will be working from the new layout.
Can you leave fields blank? Not safely. A reviewer cannot tell a deliberate omission from a missed question, so mark inapplicable items N/A. And date fields? Match the format shown on the form — conventions differ, and misreading a date is easy.
What does the Privacy Act notice cover? Four things: the legal authority behind the collection, the purpose, the routine uses, and whether disclosure is required. When should you read it? Before entering personal information, while the choice is still open.
What counts as a signature? Ink on a printed copy, or a credentialed digital signature — CAC-based, applied in software that supports it. What does not count? Your name typed into the signature box. That is a name. Then date the block, because an undated certification is a returned form.
What goes wrong most? The same short list: old edition, empty fields, illegibility, wrong date format, missing signature or date.
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.
Do you need to know which branch issued a related form? No. DD numbering is Department-wide and unified, which means the number on its own is a complete address for the document.
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.
How often does a form like this change? Unpredictably — revision follows directive changes, altered collection requirements and updated notice language. What is the practical defence? Verifying not stated every time you download rather than trusting a saved copy.
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 1162-1?
- DD Form 1162-1, Schedule of Services and Rates for Household Goods, 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?