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Your agency has DOT drivers.
Who takes the 2 a.m. call?

School districts, transit authorities, public works and municipal utilities all run safety-sensitive drivers under the same federal windows: alcohol attempted within 2 hours, controlled substances within 32. Rapid Response takes the incident, determines applicability, dispatches a qualified collector anywhere in the country, and returns a documented record to your file.

24/7 by phone, text or API. You pick the channel, we run the clock.

1. Two ways to set it up

Whichever route your agency uses, the paperwork comes from us and it comes fast.

Option A

Purchase order

A $995 opening balance plus per-incident testing is a small line item, and most agencies encumber it on a standard PO. We send everything your purchasing team needs in one email, same day.

  • W-9 and certificate of insurance, agency named as additional insured
  • Vendor registration forms completed and returned same day
  • A quote formatted as line items for your requisition
  • Account live within days of the PO
Typical timeline: two to four weeks from first call to an active account.
Option B

Cooperative contract or solicitation

If your policy requires a competed vehicle, we respond to solicitations and work through cooperative purchasing organizations so you can buy from a contract that has already been competed.

  • Sourcewell, OMNIA Partners, NASPO ValuePoint, GSA
  • Statewide term contracts and agency-specific RFPs
  • Full response package: past performance, references, pricing schedule
Ask us: tell us which vehicles your agency buys from and we will confirm where we can be reached today and what it takes to be added.
Writing a scope of work? Ask us for sample specification language covering the elements post-accident response actually depends on: documented response times, nationwide collector coverage including mobile, DOT and non-DOT applicability determination, chain of custody, and MRO verification. Use any of it, with any vendor.

2. Agencies with the same 2 a.m. gap

Anywhere public employees drive a CMV, operate transit, or run a fleet across a county at night.

School districts

Bus drivers are DOT-regulated. Routes run before dawn and after dark, and few districts have after-hours collection coverage.

Transit & paratransit

FTA-regulated testing programs with service hours that extend well past clinic hours, often across multiple counties.

County public works

Plow trucks, dump trucks and heavy equipment operating in exactly the conditions and hours that produce incidents.

Municipal utilities

Water, wastewater and electric crews on 24-hour call. Storm response is when both incidents and coverage gaps peak.

Airports & ports

Ground operations, maintenance fleets and contractor oversight, with FAA and DOT programs running in parallel.

State DOT & emergency management

Maintenance fleets, incident response units and mutual-aid deployments far from the home garage.

3. Everything your purchasing team needs

Written so it can go straight into a requisition, a sole-source justification or a bid response.

ItemDetail
Legal entityUS Health Testing
Federal registrationFMCSA-registered Consortium/Third-Party Administrator (C/TPA), operating since 2003
Past performance1.5M+ tests administered; Fortune 50 clients; national laboratory accounts
Regulatory basis49 CFR Part 40 and Part 382; non-DOT testing under the agency's own written policy
CoverageNationwide collector network, clinic and mobile, with a documented backup provider layer
Availability24 hours a day, every day, by telephone, SMS or API
NAICS codesProvided with the capability statement
UNSPSC codesProvided with the capability statement
SAM.gov UEI / CAGEProvided with the capability statement
State vendor registrationCompleted on request for any state or agency portal
InsuranceCertificate of insurance provided on request, naming your agency as additional insured
Payment termsInvoiced annually. Purchase orders and standard agency net terms accepted
ReferencesAvailable on request, including public-sector references where the client permits

The deliverable an evaluator keeps is not a proposal, it is the record. Every incident closes with a documented file: time reported, applicability determination and its basis, every dispatch attempt with timestamps, collection details, chain of custody, and MRO verification. If a federal window cannot be met, the documented attempts are completed on time instead. Either way the file is complete, which is what an auditor and a claims adjuster both ask for.

4. Pricing

There is no subscription and no per-seat licensing. Your agency funds an account, we draw against it as incidents occur, and you receive an itemized statement. If your policy requires invoicing after service instead of a funded balance, tell us and we will structure it that way.

Line itemPriceNotes
Opening account balance$995 minimumEncumbered on a standard PO and drawn down as incidents occur. This is what removes the payment call at 2 a.m.: services are authorized against the balance, not against a card someone has to be woken to provide. Unlimited safety-sensitive employees. Unused balance is refundable on account closure.
Post-accident drug screen$105 / testCollection, FDA-cleared or SAMHSA-certified laboratory analysis and MRO verification. Flat rate regardless of hour, holiday or location.
Breath alcohol test$75 / testQualified breath alcohol technician, with confirmation testing where required.
After-hours or mobile collection$150–300At actual cost, when no fixed site is open or reachable.
Intake, coordination and documentationIncluded24/7 intake, applicability determination, collector dispatch, deadline tracking and the incident record.

Your existing pre-employment, random, return-to-duty and follow-up testing stays exactly where it is, with whichever vendor holds that contract today. Rapid Response is deliberately standalone so it does not require you to re-compete a program that is already working.

Send us your agency and fleet size

We will return a one-page capability statement, a coverage read for your operating counties, and a quote you can attach to a requisition. No solicitation required to start the conversation.

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Sources & methodology

Counter methodology: no live national crash feed exists. The counter advances at the average rate implied by the most recent published annual figure (528,177 ÷ 365 ≈ 1,447 per day ≈ one every 0 seconds), reset at midnight local time. It is an estimate for illustration, not a report of specific incidents, and is updated when federal agencies publish new annual data.