In my truck I have been ticketed/pulled over a grand total of 5 times.
1st time was a parking violation in Heywood California (just outside Oakland) for illegal parking. Trucks were not allowed to park there overnight. Took it to city hall and got it torn up. They agreed with me in that I was limited in my options as to a safe and secure parking space that wasn't more than 15 miles away. In that area 15 miles away puts you in gang territory and I refused to park in such a dangerous location.
2nd time was another parking violation, this time in Los Angeles. Supposedly vehicles with 3 axles or more are not allowed to park on that curbside, once again I took it to City Court and got it torn up, I took pictures of the curb in question, including all signs nearby along the block and asked them to show me which sign specified just what I was ticketed for. They couldn't find one and tossed the ticket out.
Neither parking ticket went on my record, they still wouldn't even if I had to pay them. They weren't moving violations.
3rd time I was pulled over in Pacific Washington, I was moving from one warehouse to another across the street to pick up my trailer when the cop busted me for not wearing a seat belt. I once again took it to court, where they again backed me and tossed it out, citing that I didn't move the .5 mile down public streets to warrant the citation. Sadly though, it did show up on my record regardless as a moving violation. (Lesson learned)
4th time I was busted near Walla Walla Washington in a complicated situation involving confusing highway signs, my lack of knowledge of the area and a confused GPS (Never rely fully on your GPS if you drive truck.) I was slated to drive down US 12 where it merges with the Columbia River Highway just west of Walla Walla, problem was, it was an angled intersection, no problem for a car with 360 degree views, but for a truck with limited 180 degree view where the driver can't even see oncoming traffic from one direction making it dangerous. But the state created an alternate route for trucks where they can cross at a safer intersection with a light, problem was they didn't put up clear signs, instead adding to an already confusing array of signs pointing to 8 different ways to get to 2 routes (East on Columbia River Highway or west on the same highway, no other routes, and yet they put up 8 different signs for it when 3 or 4 would do the job much clearer.)
In any case, I went the dangerous route, my GPS was for the last 4-5 miles constantly updating the route, alternating between the truck route and the dangerous route, further lending to the confusion in my mind. Sadly there was a cop right behind me who jumped at the chance to pull me over and gave me a citation for driving a truck on a non-designated truck route. Despite my assurances that it would never happen again and that it was my first time dealing with that intersection, he still wrote me up. (I feel most cops would have understood and issued a warning, but oh well.) Decided to pay it rather than go to court, didn't have time to go to court, and it was only 70 dollars.
Never got busted for speeding or any other moving violations.
5th time (probably doesn't count but I figured I would share it anyways), I was busted for driving overweight on my trailer tires or tandems as we call them, not overweight on the whole truck, just on the tandems, so I went out there to shift the tandems back and put some weight on my drives, went back across the scales, still overweight, no change. Frustrated I went back and tried shifting them again, but the tandems wouldn't budge, they would go forward, but no backwards any more, stumped I stood there trying to figure out why they wouldn't go all the way back. Finally after almost 30 minutes I gave up and took a warning, if I crossed the ones on the other side of the state without any change to my weight, I would receive a 1500 dollar ticket. I pulled off at the next truck stop, weighed myself at the CAT scales and found that indeed I was overweight (11,500/28,000/38,500) so I parked my truck and studied the situation, eventually a veteran with many more years experience than I, ambled over and I explained the situation to him, he nodded, ambled over to my tandems, peered under and smiled, he waved me over and pointed at the blocker that keeping my tandems from moving back. We use them to stop the tandems from going too far sometimes and I forgot I had put them in when I was moving them to get loaded. It was an embarrassing moment for me as the old man chuckled, and said "Don't worry kid, it happens to all of us." I had been driving truck for 8 years up to that point.
I removed the blocker and shifted my tandems, and crossed the other scales with no more issues.
For those who may ask, the legal limits for an interstate truck without permits is 80,000 lbs fully loaded, 11,500 (maybe 12,000 now) on steer tires, 34,000 on drives, and 34,000 on tandems (trailer tires).