The Organizational Control Record for Equipment, DA Form 2401, is used to identify the user and to pinpoint the location of equipment that's on dispatch.

A quick look at it and you'll know where the equipment is, what items are being used, who has what and when they'll be returned. This is the only form in an outfit that'll keep a commander informed on the dispatch status of his equipment. Without the 2401, dispatch management would be a hodge-podge of guesswork.

across the sheet after the last dispatch
entry and inserting the next day's date
in the following open line.

If a new dispatcher comes on duty,
he puts his John Hancock and date on
the line under the "m" in the Remarks

column.

The Remarks column is also used

for recording extended vehicle trips,
breakdowns, truck and trailer com-
binations and any unusual or abnormal
operations.

When a truck or trailer comes in
from an extended trip (more than one
day) the time-in and date are put in
column 1.

When dispatching towed equipment, a single entry is made if the trailer will return the same day with the same truck. Just enter the trailer's nomenclature in the remarks column. If the trailer is to be returned later

The dispatch sheet is kept up-to-theminute by a dispatcher. He starts a sheet out at 0001, or at the beginning of the work day and uses it to record the dispatch of various types of equipment—that is, 1⁄44-ton, 2-ton, 34-ton, or with a different towing vehicle, 22-ton, 5-ton, and 10-ton trucks. Also then a separate line entry for the trailer wreckers, trailers and is made. other equipment that're dispatchable within the outfit.

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If necessary, the form can be overprinted to the maximum extent if you're dispatching the same equipment day after day.

The sheet can be used for more than one day. It's done by drawing a line

Here again, the basic details on applying the 2407 to equipment in the Tactical and Support Vehicle category is the same as when it's used for Combat Vehicles.

Pages 18-26 give a general description on filling in and using the 2407 with one exception. And that is administrative and commercial type vehicles. The new TM 38-750 says DA Form 2407 will be used at all levels for requesting and reporting accomplishments of maintenance on Administrative Use Vehicles. This includes all organizational maintenance people who're required to maintain and service administrative and commercial type vehicles.

The 2407 is now used instead of DA Form 2218, the Parts Slip and Work Required worksheet. The maintenance action, parts identification, manhours and repair costs are entered in Section II, blocks 20a thru 20n.

On completion of your required organizational maintenance services, the Copy 3 is used to accumulate any required local statistical data and to cost labor and parts for entry on the DA Form 2408-11 (Accumulative Repair Cost Record). www

Parts used for repairs of administrative vehicles are not posted on the DA Form 2408-3 . just here on the 2407 and their accumulative cost on the 2408-11.