Trucking industry executive Kevin Burch, based in Dayton, is to make an appearance in Idaho during the Humanitarian Bowl college football game Wednesday, Dec. 30, to help honor a trucker credited with saving a motorist’s life.

The trucker, Mike Hunt, was driving on Oct. 12, 2008, in Spring Lake, N.C., when he arrived at the scene of a traffic accident in which two vehicles were ablaze at about 2:20 a.m. Hunt, who hauls mail for the U.S. Postal Service, tried to put out the blaze with a fire extinguisher from his truck, then used his truck to push one of the burning vehicles away from the other, Burch said.

Hunt was able to pull a person from the burning vehicle. The North Carolina State Highway Patrol said that saved the driver’s life, Burch said Monday, Dec. 28. The other driver died.

Burch, as chairman of the Truckload Carriers Association industry group, is to make a presentation at halftime of Wednesday’s Humanitarian Bowl to honor Hunt. The game in Boise, between the University of Idaho and Bowling Green State, starts at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday and is to be broadcast nationally on ESPN.

The Truckload Carriers Association’s membership ranges from owners of fewer than half a dozen trucks to corporations with 15,000-truck fleets.

Burch is also president of Jet Express Inc., a Dayton-based trucking company.