Adding salt to water makes it freeze at a lower temperature. This fact is being used in two different ways in the two scenarios you mention. Dissolving sodium chloride in water is slighly endothermic, but this effect is small and to the best of my knowledge isn't important in the drink cooling process.
Putting salt on the highway is quite straightforward: we don't want ice to form, so we put salt in the water to prevent that. This doesn't just change the amount of time it takes ice to form, it actually completely prevents ice from forming, unless the temperature gets so low that the water can freeze even with salt in it.
Cooling your drink is a bit more complicated, because in this case the rate at which things happen is important. You don't want your drink to be less than $0^\circ C$ because it would freeze; instead you want to cool it down to a few degrees Celsius nice and quickly.
The rate at which it cools depends on two things: the temperature of its surroundings (the colder the better) and the heat conductivity between it and them. You could try to cool it by putting it in a bowl of ice at $0^\circ C$, but the problem is that the ice is solid and will only touch the bottle at a few points. This results in a poor thermal conductivity, so the drink will only cool slowly.
To get around this, you could try mixing the ice with some water. Now the bottle is touching the liquid over a large surface area, and the liquid itself has a higher thermal conductivity than solid ice due to mixing, so heat will be transferred much more quickly. But the problem is that the water won't be at zero degrees any more, at least not at first (I'm assuming the water comes from a tap, so it's not chilled initially). You have to wait for quite a bit of the ice to melt before the water's temperature will drop. Also, once you put your warm drink into the water it will heat the water up as the drink cools down, so again you have to wait for the ice to melt in order for the water to cool again.
The solution to this is to make the ice melt faster. You can do this by adding salt. This lowers the freezing point, making the water less "happy" about being in the liquid state, so it melts more quickly. This means firstly that the tap water you've added to the ice will cool to close to $0^\circ C$ much more quickly, and secondly that once you've put your drink in there the water will stay cold as the ice continues to melt.
It's also possible that, with the salt added, the water can go to below $0^\circ C$, but this will only happen if the ice is quite a bit colder than $0^\circ C$. This could be the case, but my intuition is that the rate of cooling due to the ice melting faster is more important here than the final temperature. You could easily test this by putting a thermometer in the salty ice water and seeing if it goes much below freezing.
There's also the fact that dissolving the salt is endothermic, as you mentioned. To test whether this is important, you could try adding salt to some chilled water without any ice, and see if the temperature drops a lot. My feeling is that it will only drop by a tiny amount that will be hard to measure with a normal kitchen thermometer, but you can always try the experiment.
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The (long-term) temperature of an object depends on the heat transfer between it and all of the environment.
Air isn't a great conductor of heat. So if there is little air movement, the radiation environment may dominate the heat transfer. A cold calm day may feel quite balmy under full sunlight.
On a cold evening, the sky may have a radiation temperature of -40. Your motorcycle is radiating some energy, but very little is returning to upward-facing surfaces. Without a breeze to increase air convection or structures around to increase thermal radiation, it's quite possible for the vehicle surfaces to cool below zero. The air is adding heat to it at that temperature, just not quickly enough to counter the radiative losses.
Water evaporation isn't necessary.