DOT SAP Evaluation in North Dakota — 14 Providers Listed

North Dakota's freight is I-94 through Fargo, Bismarck and Dickinson and I-29 up the Red River Valley, plus the Bakken oil field around Williston and Minot, which put a lot of tanker and oilfield drivers on two-lane roads. The state has few SAPs, so telehealth providers and offices in Minnesota cover much of it. We list 14 providers for North Dakota on this page, 5 of which say on their own website they perform DOT SAP evaluations, with offices in Minot; 4 telehealth SAPs based out of state list North Dakota as a state they serve by video. The other 9 listings are for treatment or testing, which you may need later in the process, not for the evaluation itself.

There is no North Dakota 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 North Dakota as for one anywhere else. What North Dakota controls is the license: the North Dakota Department of Transportation 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.”

Yes, you can do the evaluation by video from North Dakota: 49 CFR §40.291 leaves that to the SAP's discretion, and a legitimate telehealth SAP will tell you in one sentence whether their license covers North Dakota. 4 telehealth providers on this page list North Dakota as a state they serve. A SAP across the line in Minnesota, South Dakota and Montana 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.