Get Back on Track
A DOT drug or alcohol violation can remove you from FRA regulated safety sensitive duties. Reset Road connects you with a DOT qualified SAP for a confidential in-person or virtual evaluation and guides you through the required return to duty process.
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SAP Services are provided in all 50 states.
Every Week Out of Duty Can Mean Lost Income
A DOT violation can prevent you from performing FRA regulated safety sensitive functions. For railroad employees whose livelihood depends on covered service, delaying the return to duty process can mean additional time away from the work they normally perform.
The sooner you begin the required process, the sooner you can begin completing the steps toward return to duty eligibility.
Your Railroad Duties Are On Hold
A DOT drug or alcohol violation can remove you from FRA regulated safety sensitive work. Until the required SAP and return to duty steps are completed, you cannot resume covered duties.
Your Record Can Follow You To Your Next Employer
Changing railroad employers does not make an unresolved violation disappear. Required drug and alcohol testing records can affect your eligibility to perform safety sensitive work with another DOT regulated employer.
Waiting Can Cost You More Time Away From Work
The longer you wait to begin the SAP process, the longer your return to covered railroad duties may be delayed. Starting promptly gives you a clear path forward.
You Are Under Pressure To Get Back To Work
Lost income, uncertainty, and pressure from family or your employer can make the process feel overwhelming. A qualified SAP gives you clear requirements and a defined path toward return to duty.
Getting Back To Railroad Work Starts With Completing The Process
The five steps from prohibited to driving
Reset Road handles steps 1 through 3. Steps 4 and 5 run through your employer, and we tell you exactly what to ask for so nothing stalls.
Initial evaluation
You meet your SAP in person or over video. It runs about 60. Your SAP asks about your history, your test, and your circumstances, then determines what education or treatment you need.
Treatment or education
Your SAP writes a plan and gives you a list of qualified providers to choose from. Some drivers get an education course they can finish in less than a week. Others get a treatment program that runs longer.
SAP follow-up evaluation
When you finish your plan, you meet your SAP again. The SAP verifies you completed what was assigned, determines whether you are compliant, and if you are, sets your follow-up testing schedule.
Return-to-duty test
Your railroad employer arranges the required return to duty test. You must receive the required negative result before returning to FRA regulated safety sensitive duties. Return to duty drug testing is directly observed.
Follow-up testing schedule
After returning to duty, you must complete unannounced follow up testing. FRA requirements may include at least six drug tests and six alcohol tests during the first 12 months, with testing continuing for up to 60 months.
Returning to Railroad Service After a DOT Violation
Working on the railroad creates a different regulatory environment than driving a commercial truck or working in another DOT regulated industry. FRA drug and alcohol requirements under 49 CFR Part 219 reach across the people responsible for moving trains, issuing mandatory directives, maintaining track, inspecting equipment, and maintaining signal systems. Engineers, conductors, dispatchers, roadway workers, signal employees, mechanical employees, and certain railroad contractors may therefore encounter FRA requirements when a drug or alcohol violation occurs.
For a railroad employee, being removed from regulated service and being ready to return to work are not necessarily the same event. The DOT SAP process addresses the drug or alcohol violation through an individualized evaluation, recommendations for education or treatment, and a follow up evaluation. The SAP evaluates each employee individually rather than assigning the same requirements to everyone. This means that two railroad employees with similar violations may receive different recommendations based on their individual evaluations.
After the employee demonstrates successful compliance with the SAP recommendations, another stage begins. The railroad or other responsible employer determines whether the employee will be returned to safety sensitive service and must ensure that the required return to duty testing is completed before that happens. A SAP does not make the employers employment decision or independently declare an employee fit for railroad duty. Railroad policies, labor agreements, medical requirements, and other applicable return to service procedures may continue to affect when an employee actually resumes work.
Follow up testing is also different from simply being placed back into the railroads regular random testing pool. The SAP develops an individualized follow up testing plan after successful compliance has been established. Federal rules require at least six unannounced follow up tests during the first twelve months of safety sensitive duty, and additional testing can extend beyond the first year. The employer chooses the actual testing dates, and regular random tests cannot be substituted for tests required by the SAPs follow up plan.
Railroad employees may also encounter FRA requirements that are less familiar outside the rail industry. Part 219 includes railroad specific provisions involving regulated service, voluntary referral programs, coworker report programs, and requirements concerning the use of certain prescription and over the counter medications. For example, FRA guidance explains that regulated employees using certain therapeutic medications must address whether the medication is consistent with safely performing their assigned duties. These requirements exist separately from the basic SAP evaluation and may matter when an employee is preparing to return to railroad service.
Reset Road provides virtual DOT SAP evaluations for FRA regulated employees throughout the return to duty process. Our role is to evaluate the individual circumstances of the violation, establish appropriate education or treatment recommendations, conduct the required follow up evaluation, and provide the SAP documentation required under DOT rules. We also help railroad employees understand the boundaries of the SAP process so they know which steps are handled by the SAP and which return to service requirements remain with their railroad or employer.
Why Railroad Professionals Choose Reset Road
available when and where you are.
Complete your SAP evaluation in-person or by secure video from a private location. No office visit is necessary. All you need is a phone, tablet, or computer with a reliable internet connection.
$450, Transparent Pricing
Your 450 dollar fee covers the initial SAP evaluation and follow up evaluation. You know the cost before you begin, with no additional fee for the required follow up evaluation.
Start The Process Without Waiting
Your railroad duties may be on hold, but the SAP process does not have to be. In-person and virtual evaluations let you begin promptly without extended scheduling delays.
Start The Process Without Waiting
Your assessment date and your eligibility date go to the Clearinghouse by the close of the next business day, every time. Slow filing is one of the most common complaints drivers have about SAP providers, and it costs real weeks.
We Understand Railroad Work
We work with FRA regulated railroad professionals, including engineers, conductors, dispatchers, signal employees, and other safety sensitive workers. You will not have to spend your evaluation explaining why returning to covered service matters.
You pick your SAP
Your DOT qualified SAP evaluates your situation, determines the required education or treatment, conducts the follow up evaluation, and establishes your follow up testing plan.
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Railroad Professionals Moving Forward
Short, honest Reviews from satisfied customers that got back to work with Reset Road.
Google Review
I thought it was going to be difficult but Mr.Nathan walk me threw step by step he is very helpful and understanding through the process. I would highly recommend him through a process like this one.
David J.
August 29, 2026
Google Review
Excellent service very professional I would’ve been lost without the help of Nathan he is very patient and helps you through the whole process would recommend highly.
Cole D.
August 17, 2026
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Nathan is a very helpful and patient with communication and understanding 👍🏾Thanks alot.
AJC Trucking LLC
August 8, 2026
Nothing changes until you make the first call
The evaluation takes about 60 minutes. Most railroad professionals finish the whole return-to-duty process Reset Road in under a week. Every week you wait is a week of missed income. Start the evaluation in-person or online and talk to a real SAP today.
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