You have arrived looking for DD Form 1085. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Domestic Freight Routing Request and Order. Full title: DD Form 1085, Domestic Freight Routing Request and Order, November 2007.
Next, check the edition. You want not stated, currently carried as not stated by the publisher. Then confirm the form applies to you — this is a Department of Defense form, so you use it whether you serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force or Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction.
Once you know the form fits, find out when you file it. not stated sets the requirement, and not stated maintains the form itself. Your own command or agency adds local timing on top of that, so ask your administrative office if the deadline matters to you.
Finally, decide how you will complete it. You can type into a fillable file or print a blank and write by hand, and the rest of this page walks you through both paths in order.
Now fill it in. Work from the top of the page downward, and do not jump ahead — the identifying block comes first, the substance of your entry second, the certification last. Later boxes often depend on what you put at the top.
Your first action is verification. Find the edition date on the form and match it against not stated. A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
If a particular field puzzles you, read the instructions printed on the form first, then go to not stated. When the two disagree, follow the directive.
Download the form
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 2 pages and about 75 entries.
Take the pdf if you are unsure. Then check which kind you have: if the boxes highlight when you click them, you have a fillable pdf and can type straight into it, and your entries save with the file. If nothing highlights, you have a printable pdf — send it to a printer and use black ink.
Prefer typing over writing. Your form will likely be scanned and emailed onward, and typed text reproduces at every stage while pen strokes fade or blur. When you do write, print in capitals so the receiving clerk can read it.
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).
With the form finished, route it to the office named in not stated or in your organization's own instruction. Keep a copy first. People rarely regret having one and frequently regret not having one.
When DD Form 1085 references another form, search on the series and number. Because DD numbers are common to every military department, the number by itself identifies exactly one document.
Be careful when a procedure pairs this form with a service form. Read the prefix, not just the digits. Service forms answer to a service proponent, while DD forms answer to not stated or an equivalent Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Grabbing the wrong prefix gets you a form that has nothing to do with your task.
Do not archive this file and reuse it in a year. Forms are reissued as directives are revised, as data requirements shift, and as statutory notice text is amended. Your protection is simple: download fresh each time and confirm the edition date.
One thing this page does not do: tell you whether your submission will be accepted. We publish the document and explain how to complete it, and that is where our role ends. Nothing here is legal advice. Take questions about eligibility, applicability or procedure 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?