N8A Additional Reference Information

To identify additional station and waybill or station, or waybill information pertaining to revenue waybill

Position: N8A-01 · Element: 1378 · Name: Waybill Cross-Reference Code · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 2 · Max: 2 · Repeat: 1

Code specifying the type of cross-reference between the revenue waybill to a previously submitted waybill

Position: N8A-02 · 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: N8A-03 · 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

N8A03 is the date of the waybill in N8A02.

Position: N8A-04 · Element: 127 · Name: Reference Identification · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 80 · Repeat: 1

Reference information as defined for a particular Transaction Set or as specified by the Reference Identification Qualifier

N8A04 is the unique revenue reference waybill identification number (URRWIN).

Position: N8A-05 · Element: 19 · Name: City Name · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Conditional · Min: 2 · Max: 30 · Repeat: 1

Free-form text for city name

P0506: If either N8A-05 or N8A-06 is present, then the other is required

N8A05 and N806 identifies the location based on the code in N8A01.

Position: N8A-06 · Element: 156 · Name: State or Province Code · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Conditional · Min: 2 · Max: 2 · Repeat: 1

Code specifying the Standard State/Province as defined by appropriate government agency

Position: N8A-07 · Element: 140 · Name: Standard Carrier Alpha Code · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 2 · Max: 4 · Repeat: 1

Code identifying the Standard Carrier Alpha Code

N8A07 and N8A08 identify the carrier associated with the N8A01.

Position: N8A-08 · Element: 573 · Name: Freight Station Accounting Code · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 5 · Repeat: 1

Code specifying the Freight Station Accounting code assigned for AAR Managed Codes for Locations

Position: N8A-09 · Element: 206 · Name: Equipment Initial · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 4 · Repeat: 1

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

Position: N8A-10 · 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)