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ARMS Cheat Sheet

1. To locate a car in ARMS and associated waybill:
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Open ARMS and click on the clipboard in the bottom right hand corner:

Enter your car number on the clipboard and hit the “wand” above it:

This will bring your car up in ARMS.  If you are needing to see the waybill, click on the car number.  This will give you access to the waybill.

In the next screen, click on the waybill under “Associated waybill”:

This will open your waybill.   You can either scroll through the waybill to find the information that you need or on the left hand side of the screen, click on what you are looking for and ARMS will take you to the place on the waybill you are needing.  In this example, I’m looking for equipment details:

1. To check for good outbound billing:

Locate your car(s) in ARMS.   If it is in PU status, you may then add the car(s) to the OB list.  If the car(s) are in NT status, you will need to release the car, as described below (Releasing Cars in ARMS).  Once released, it should go into PU status. If not, please contact the PTRA.  Please note: as always, it may take 30-60 minutes for EDI to hit when a customer bills the car(s).  

1. To empty cars in ARMS:

Locate your car(s) in ARMS. Highlight the cars you are wanting to empty by clicking into the boxes on the left side of your cars.  If you are needing to empty a list of cars, you can click the box directly under Update on the left hand side and this will check all the boxes in your list:

Once you have chosen the car(s) you need to empty, hit the empty button on the top in the middle and then hit Update.  Your cars should show empty and in NT status (this may take a minute for the car(s) to go into NT status, depending on the number of cars on your list.  You may have to update a few times:

To Release cars in ARMS:

Once cars are in NT Status, chose your cars using the boxes on the left hand side of your cars or highlight them all by using the box under “Update”:

Once you have chosen your car(s), hit the Release button on the top.  The system will ask you to confirm that you are wanting to release the cars.  Once you have confirmed, hit your update button again and the cars should show in PU status.

To Resend a 417/418 from ARMS to Watss:

Locate your car in ARMS and select the cars you are needing the 417/418.  Choose the car(s) you are needing the 417/418 for and on the top row, hit the button for which kind of billing you are wanting, either a 417 or 418.  Wait a few minutes and the billing should send into Watss:

Please refer to the following processes for Locating Cars on Car Orders in ARMS process and the Setback and Reject Process to use these functions in ARMS.