DOT SAP Evaluation in New York — 7 Providers Listed

New York's CDL work splits between the city and Long Island, where delivery and construction driving dominate, and upstate, where I-90, the Thruway, runs Albany to Buffalo and I-81 carries the Syracuse and Binghamton traffic. The Peace Bridge and Lewiston crossings at Buffalo and Niagara Falls are major gateways to Canada. Below are 7 listings for New York, 2 of which say on their own website they perform DOT SAP evaluations, with offices in Brooklyn and New York. The other 5 listings are for treatment or testing, which you may need later in the process, not for the evaluation itself.

There is no New York version of the SAP process. The return-to-duty steps are federal, set out in 49 CFR Part 40, and they are the same for a driver in New York as for one anywhere else. What New York controls is the license: the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles downgrades the CDL of a driver in prohibited status, as every state has been required to do since November 18, 2024 (FMCSA), and reinstates it once the Clearinghouse shows “not prohibited.”

A remote evaluation is accepted in New York 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 New York. A SAP across the line in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont 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.