Driver: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

A person employed to operate a motor vehicle as a carrier of persons or property.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, the sole-proprietor share shows how often the NPI holder reported that status in NPPES, not directly how many Drivers work in private practice. Because the field is self-reported and may not capture employment, contracting, fleet arrangements, or multiple work settings, the 44.8% figure is an imperfect proxy for private practice.

By state

New NPI registrations by year

Counts reflect the year each NPI was first issued, among records still active today. The final year is partial: this data covers through 2026-01-11.

Data notes

• The sole-proprietor field is self-reported by the provider in NPPES and is an imperfect proxy for private practice.
• A sole-proprietor count shown as <11 is suppressed: the true value is below 11, which could include zero.
• Active NPI counts reflect records with Driver as the primary taxonomy and may not equal unique people or all workers.
• State and enumeration patterns describe where and when records appear in NPPES; they do not establish why those patterns occur.
• Providers are counted once, by their primary taxonomy code only.

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) Data Dissemination file, FOIA-disclosable public data under CMS-6060-N. Aggregated by Hero EMR on 2026-08-03; deactivated NPIs excluded; specialty assigned from the primary taxonomy code (NUCC 25.1). Counts below 11 are suppressed. Individual providers are never published. All provider data pages.

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