Got a parking ticket at service plaza in New Jersey

It's all about communication EARLY.

"I will be empty at XXXX, if I don't have a new load assigned by then, then I will have to bounce to Wayfarway or risk parking ticket/pissing off the customer.

I've done that plenty of times over the years, only once did it become "a thing".

 

They put a chalk mark on your tire, then come back 10 hours later.

 

You don't have to agree with the parking ticket to be punished by it. You don' have to have a PhD level understanding of the How or Why or When of the ticket to be punished by it. While a parking ticket is not a moving violation ticket and will not likely ever put anything on your MVR, it can have credit score consequences that cost you much much more than the amount of the fine. I work with people who seem to have one comment about EVERY rule, "I don't agree with it." To them I reply nobody cares if you agree or not. The consequences are not withheld from you simply by not agreeing with the policy being enforced. Try telling a cop you disagree with the speed limit. It makes no difference one way or another. You might as well just replied with the price of strawberries are too high. My advice is to pay the ticket and keep proof forever you paid that ticket. It will be over and done with and have no further consequence. Or you can fight it, spend more time, and probably still owe the fine.

 

This is one reason I NEVER park on streets. I never got a parking ticket in a big truck. If the customer or the area doesn't have truck parking, NOT JUST OTHER TRUCKS PARKED ALONG THE CURB, I go to a truck stop, even if it is 75 miles away. I'm not volunteering for trouble because shippers/reeivers/dispatchers think semi-trucks evaporate when they go home in the afternoon. Trucks are physical objects and they exist and need a place to park. Someone's street or property doesn't become a truck stop just because I need a place to park or they have an empty area just big enough for my truck or there is a truck parked there already.