Dropdown lists first option to be null

Question

I Have a dropdownlist that allows you to selcect an exsiting Driver ID. when the page loads the first Driver ID is already selected and I would rather allow the Driver ID dropdownlist to first have a null value selected when the page loads. How will I do this? This is my Driver ID view:

 <div class="form-group">
                @Html.LabelFor(model => model.DriverID, "Driver Cell", new { @class = "control-label col-md-2" })
                <div class="col-md-10">
                    @Html.DropDownList("DriverID", null, htmlAttributes: new { @class = "box" })
                    @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.DriverID)
                </div>
            </div>

Answer 1

You can use

@Html.DropDownList("DriverID", null, "Select a driver", htmlAttributes: new { @class = "box" })

but this dropdown will be empty since you are passing null as SelectList.