James Philips is a former EMS chief who has 35 years of leadership experience in the fire/rescue/EMS fleet community on behalf of manufacturers, dealers and remounters. As a vice president of fleet resources for Rural/Metro Fire, which is a private fire department that operates under contracts in numerous states, and for American Medical Response (AMR), he led national vehicle procurement, maintenance and remounting for 8,000 fire-EMS units that operate 200 million miles annually. Philips can be reached at [email protected].