DOT SAP Evaluation in Kentucky — 10 Providers Listed

Kentucky's trucking centers on Louisville, where UPS runs its Worldport hub and I-65, I-64 and I-71 meet, on Northern Kentucky's DHL hub at the Cincinnati airport, and on I-75 through Lexington to the Tennessee line. The Toyota plant at Georgetown, the Ford plants in Louisville and the bourbon industry add steady regional freight. Below are 10 listings for Kentucky, 2 of which say on their own website they perform DOT SAP evaluations, with offices in Georgetown and Louisville. The other 8 listings are for treatment or testing, which you may need later in the process, not for the evaluation itself.

The SAP process itself is federal — 49 CFR Part 40, Subpart O — so nothing about it changes at the Kentucky line. The state's part is the CDL itself. Since November 18, 2024 (FMCSA), the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's Division of Driver Licensing must downgrade the license of a driver in prohibited status within 60 days, and it is the office that restores the commercial privilege after a negative return-to-duty test.

A remote evaluation is accepted in Kentucky because the federal rule permits it everywhere: a SAP may evaluate you by real-time video at their discretion (49 CFR §40.291), provided their own license lets them see a driver in Kentucky. A SAP across the line in Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri and Illinois is also an option, in person or by video, under the same licensing question. The one step that always needs a collection site is the observed return-to-duty test; everything up to it can often be done from home.