Laravel 5 SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found

I am doing some joins and trying to get the data. My query builder is:

$datasource = DB::table('vehicles')->join('brands', 'vehicles.brand_id', '=', 'brands.id')->join('sections', 'vehicles.section_id', '=', 'sections.id')->select('vehicles.*, vehicles.id AS vid');

But i am getting this error:

SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column
‘vehicles.model,’ in ‘field list’ (SQL: select vehicles.model, as
AS from vehicles inner join brands on vehicles.brand_id =
brands.id inner join sections on vehicles.section_id =
sections.id limit 4 offset 0) Line 620

What i am doing wrong ?

You should use selectRaw() instead of select():

->selectRaw('vehicles.*, vehicles.id AS vid');

Read more about raw expressions: http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/queries#raw-expressions