Active (automatic) Regeneration cycles are programmed into the ECM to trigger anytime the DPF gauge on the instrument cluster reaches 50%, OR every 24 hours of engine run time. Whichever scenario happens first. The cycles usually last about 20 minutes on the highway. Once a cycle is finished, the 24 hour timer resets regardless of wether it was triggered by soot load or by time.
Without any additional information about how frequently your truck goes into a regeneration cycle, it doesn’t sound like there’s anything wrong. It’s perfectly normal for a truck to run that cycle even with the gauge at zero percent. What you witnessed was probably a regeneration cycle based on your engine hours not soot loading.