Oregon Ticket for Driving off of Designated Truck Route

I was about a mile away from the Georgia Pacific plant in Toledo, OR.
The GPS Sent me down a restricted road that was off limits to trucks greater than 60 feet in length. I saw the sign and pulled over, but there wasn't room to get turned around. Go figure, but no excuse I know.

Anyway, I ended up getting a ticket for " Driving off the designated truck route" Fine was $260, which I paid. I was upset by this and turned in the truck a few days later.

I'm now wondering how damning this type of ticket is on my record?

I also have an overweight ticket from Georgia last year.

Any insight would be appreciated.

 

I do not think the cop even ran my license. If they get one truck a day it is a tremendous revenue source for the town.

Anyway, its not the money, it is the fact that this is leverage for a company to use against me in the future.

 

I guess I felt like I was being used as a revenue source by the town. Lots of free miles to pay the price of that ticket.

Also, the cop should have just warned me, but he said "until I'm sitting in the mayors office, there is 100 percent enforcement of no trucks through town".

The ticket was a money ticket, plain and simple. At some point you get fed up with all the crap the job entails. Besides, I have a history of only working 3 months and quitting.

I drive just to stay in the game, so to speak.