I’ve driven that stretch many times. I love the salt flats; unlike anything anywhere else in the country. That weird salt molecule sculpture next to I-80 before you get to Wendover is kind of creepy and adds to the overall other-worldly feeling.
Seeing the lights of Wendover in the distance late one night I thought it looked like a base on some alien planet. Given how isolated it is it might as well be.
In 1989 I was working for a mining company out of Sparks. My company pickup had a bad fuel pump, and had reached the point where I had to drive up steep hills in reverse and could only do about 60 on the highway. I finally got it fixed in Wendover, so the next morning I took it out on the flats to try it out.