Dave Salverson had always hated U.S. Highway 287, the 65-mile stretch of road providing the shortest distance between Laramie, Wyoming, and Fort Collins, Colorado.
It’s the route where he’d nearly been run into a ditch by a reckless driver, and where he was almost demolished by an 18-wheeler skidding across both lanes down a slope of black ice.
“Had I been 20 seconds ahead, that thing would have taken us out,” he said, explaining that for these reasons he instituted a firm Salverson family driving rule…