Who says trucks are only for work? They obviously didn’t tell these Dodge and Ram truck owners.
Diesel Dodge and Ram trucks are used for work, but going to the home improvement store and lugging sheetrock to a job site or pulling huge trailers stacked high with hay bales isn’t all there is to them. They can be used for less professional purposes, too.
Just look at the pickups in the video above. Mopar, mo’ fun. There’s no getting around the fact that some of the antics in the footage shouldn’t have been conducted on public roads or parking lots. That aside, the drivers seem to be enjoying themselves. The same goes for some of the bystanders.
The amount of power a stock Cummins diesel puts to the road is enough to break the back tires loose, but something tells me the trucks in the vid have had a little work done to them. Mo’ power, mo’ fun. They have no problem turning their big tires into stinky vapor doing long, cloudy burnouts. One truck owner lays down a jet-black 11 and powerslides their way around a parking lot, generating a massive yellow and white cloud of tire smoke.
Another Dodge driver emerges from the muck of a muddy body of water, the chubby rubber and white paint of their rig covered in the reddish-brown sign of a good time outdoors.
It’s not all horsing around, though. A Ram truck driver appears to be helping out a tractor trailer by giving it a pull. I have a feeling he’s still having fun doing it.
Derek Shiekhi's father raised him on cars. As a boy, Derek accompanied his dad as he bought classics such as post-WWII GM trucks and early Ford Mustang convertibles.
After loving cars for years and getting a bachelor's degree in Business Management, Derek decided to get an associate degree in journalism. His networking put him in contact with the editor of the Austin-American Statesman newspaper, who hired him to write freelance about automotive culture and events in Austin, Texas in 2013. One particular story led to him getting a certificate for learning the foundations of road racing.
While watching TV with his parents one fateful evening, he saw a commercial that changed his life. In it, Jeep touted the Wrangler as the Texas Auto Writers Association's "SUV of Texas." Derek knew he had to join the organization if he was going to advance as an automotive writer. He joined the Texas Auto Writers Association (TAWA) in 2014 and was fortunate to meet several nice people who connected him to the representatives of several automakers and the people who could give him access to press vehicles (the first one he ever got the keys to was a Lexus LX 570). He's now a regular at TAWA's two main events: the Texas Auto Roundup in the spring and the Texas Truck Rodeo in the fall.
Over the past several years, Derek has learned how to drive off-road in various four-wheel-drive SUVs (he even camped out for two nights in a Land Rover), and driven around various tracks in hot hatches, muscle cars, and exotics. Several of his pieces, including his article about the 2015 Ford F-150 being crowned TAWA's 2014 "Truck of Texas" and his review of the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider, have won awards in TAWA's annual Excellence in Craft Competition. Last year, his JK Forum profile of Wagonmaster, a business that restores Jeep Wagoneers, won prizes in TAWA’s signature writing contest and its pickup- and SUV-focused Texas Truck Invitational.
