DOT SAP Evaluation in Massachusetts — 13 Providers Listed
Massachusetts freight funnels through I-90, the Mass Pike, and the I-95 and I-495 beltways around Boston, with the Port of Boston in Charlestown and distribution around Worcester and Springfield. Boston-area driving is short-haul and tight, and many drivers here work for regional LTL and delivery fleets. Below are 13 listings for Massachusetts, 3 of which say on their own website they perform DOT SAP evaluations, with offices in Brockton (2) and Buzzards Bay. The other 10 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 Massachusetts line. Where Massachusetts does come in is the CDL: the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles removes the commercial privilege from a driver the Clearinghouse reports as prohibited — a 60-day requirement on every state since November 18, 2024 (FMCSA) — and puts it back when your status clears.
Video evaluations count in Massachusetts. The rule that allows them (49 CFR §40.291) is federal, and the only state question is whether the SAP's license reaches a driver sitting in Massachusetts; ask before you book. A SAP across the line in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Hampshire and Vermont is also an option, in person or by video, under the same licensing question. What cannot be done by video is the return-to-duty test itself, which is an observed collection at a collection site.
Drivers who move fast are often back in 2–3 weeks, and the one step you control is when you start.
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What a SAP evaluation costs in Massachusetts
None of the 3 SAPs above lists a price on the pages we read. Elsewhere, advertised prices commonly run $450–$650 (what drives the cost).
Video SAP evaluations in Massachusetts
Permitted under DOT rules (how remote evaluations work).
Massachusetts offices that say they also see drivers remotely:
- Leading Light Behavioral Health, Inc.: DOT SAP evaluation is described as in-person, office-based; telehealth is not mentioned for this service source
- HM Behavioral Health: Offers virtual telehealth for Massachusetts residents source
Languages and hours
- New England Behavioral Health Services Inc | Contact Us: States it offers services in Haitian Creole, Spanish, Portuguese, and French source
- Leading Light Behavioral Health, Inc.: Office hours include Tuesday evenings until 7:30pm and weekend appointments by request source
Your CDL in Massachusetts
In Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles downgrades the CDL of a driver in prohibited status, and is where you reinstate it once the Clearinghouse shows “not prohibited” (FMCSA).
Other substance-use services in Massachusetts
Their sites do not say they perform SAP evaluations — useful for treatment or the return-to-duty test.
- ARCpoint Labs of Woburn — Woburn
- Savida Health West Springfield — West Springfield
- Power of Recovery — Revere
- Aftermath Addiction Treatment Center — Wakefield
- Massachusetts Center for Addiction — Quincy
- Woburn Addiction Treatment: Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehab Massachusetts — Woburn
- Topsail Addiction Treatment — North Andover
- Compass Recovery — Feeding Hills
- Counseling & Assessment Clinic of Worcester (Substance Addiction Program) — Worcester
- Office Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) — Boston
SAP offices across the state line
Confirmed SAP offices in neighboring states:
- Diversity Counseling, LLC — Cranston, RI
- Med-Trac — New Haven, CT
- Solutions EAP — Middletown, CT
- Denise Delph, LCSW — Brooklyn, NY
- SAP Evaluation, LLC — New York, NY
- Bresnahan & Ball Substance Abuse Counseling Services — Londonderry, NH
- Vermont New Hampshire DOT SAP Services — Fairlee, VT
After the evaluation: the DOT SAP program, step by step · carriers that hire SAP graduates
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