ED Equipment Description

To identify further the referenced equipment

Position: ED-01 · Element: 206 · Name: Equipment Initial · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Mandatory · Min: 1 · Max: 4 · Repeat: 1

Prefix or alphabetic part of an equipment unit's identifying number

Position: ED-02 · Element: 207 · Name: Equipment Number · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Mandatory · Min: 1 · Max: 15 · Repeat: 1

Sequencing or serial part of an equipment unit's identifying number (pure numeric form for equipment number is preferred)

Position: ED-03 · Element: 322 · Name: Load/Empty Status Code · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 1 · Repeat: 1

Code which specifies the loaded condition of transportation equipment

Position: ED-04 · Element: 22 · Name: Commodity Code · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 30 · Repeat: 1

Code describing a commodity or group of commodities

Position: ED-05 · Element: 79 · Name: Lading Description · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 50 · Repeat: 1

Description of an item as required for rating and billing purposes

Position: ED-06 · Element: 186 · Name: Waybill Number · Type: Numeric (N0) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 6 · Repeat: 1

Carrier accounting number of the waybill for the inbound movement

Position: ED-07 · Element: 207 · Name: Equipment Number · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 15 · Repeat: 1

Sequencing or serial part of an equipment unit's identifying number (pure numeric form for equipment number is preferred)

ED07 indicates the high end of an equipment range.

Position: ED-08 · Element: 373 · Name: Date · Type: Date (DT) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 8 · Max: 8 · Repeat: 1

Date expressed as CCYYMMDD where CC represents the first two digits of the calendar year

ED08 is the waybill date.