orientation for a driving job - driver log book

I've never gone to orientation at a big company so my thinking might be off. But, I would say that if you are not doing work directly pertaining to a truck, trailer, and load (i.e. sitting in a classroom doing tests) then that wouldn't be considered on-duty not driving. If I were out in the yard doing something with the truck then I would log it as ODND. If I were sitting in a room going over paper work, I wouldn't log it unless I was told otherwise.

What happened to the rule about not having to run a log book if you stay within so many miles of your home terminal and returning home every night and not crossing state lines? Would orientation not fall under that?

You should just ask for clarification. If you walked up and said, "I just wanted to make sure we were supposed to log this time as ODND or do yall not require that". I'm more than certain that they would appreciate that a lot more than getting to the end of orientation and they ask for your logs and you don't have them or you hand them the logs and they look at you like you're crazy for logging it.

 

I have only been in a couple orientations but they both were on duty. It is like taking a drug test. You are not in or by the truck but it is for the job so it has to be logged on duty also.