This giant bus has a lot of wheels, but it doesn’t have any traction. Luckily, a diesel-powered Ford Super Duty comes to its rescue.
Think of a Ford Super Duty truck as a giant multi-purpose tool. It’s not made to do just one thing. It’s made to do them all. It can transport people comfortably and give them mobile Wi-Fi access that allows them to entertain themselves or get important work done. It can haul. It can tow. And it doesn’t discriminate about what it carries or pulls. Whether it’s cinder blocks or in this case, a bus, the Super Duty can get heavy cargo where it needs to go.
An Instagram user by the screenname of dylanpetch originally posted this footage on their private page, but we found it on the alumiduty account. It shows Petch’s blacked-out Super Duty King Ranch doing what Super Dutys do best: getting a job done. It certainly has its work cut out for it. A giant 56-passenger motor coach has gotten stuck on a snowy road. Although it has a lot of weight pushing all of its wheels to the ground, those just can’t get a grip in the wintry conditions.
The bus just happens to be in the wrong place at the right time. Petch uses a bright orange strap to connect his truck’s tow hitch to the front of the disabled bus. Once the slack goes out of the line, it’s a matter of putting the 6.7’s power down and staying in it, especially since there seems to be a slight grade to the road. If the Super Duty loses momentum and the motor coach starts sliding backward, it could pull the truck with it and make an already bad situation much worse.
Thanks to Petch’s driving and his truck’s traction and power, that doesn’t happen. The Super Duty‘s tires don’t spin for a second. The entire time they’re moving, they’re taking the Ford and the Golden Arrow motor coach further up the road.
We’re not sure if that bus got to where it needed to go on time, but one thing’s for sure: It at least got there, thanks to a Ford truck.
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.
