The first severe weather of the season is on its way, and the Ohio Department of Transportation is preparing for the potentially dangerous driving conditions.

ODOT representatives from Columbiana, Mahoning, and Trumbull counties tell 21 News that they have plans in place and are prepared to hit the road later this evening.

While crews will not be able to pretreat the roads, because of the rain coming to the area before it changes to snow, they expect trucks to be out around 6 p.m.

An ODOT spokesperson says roads have to be dry to pretreat them. With rain arriving before the snow, they say anything they put down would get swept away.

"We're going to wait out that rain, but a soon as the rain switches over to snow our crews are going to get out and snow plowing and salting the roads in both Trumbull and Mahoning counties," Ray Marsch said, spokesperson for ODOT District 4.

Sixteen crews will be out in Mahoning County. Columbiana County has 17 crews and it will be all hands on deck once the snow moves in overnight.

Statewide, ODOT has 739,000 tons of salt on hand and more than 1,400 plow trucks.

Last winter, nearly 750,000 tons of salt were used, and plows were on the roads 59 times.

All 23 Trumbull County plows are prepared to plow into the night and through the morning commute-- each responsible for clearing 20 to 30 miles of road.

Trumbull County has 10,000 tons of salt on hand, with another batch of 18,000 tons on the way.

"We'll have our crews out as soon as snow starts to fly," Tom Klejka said, highway superintendent for the Trumbull County Engineer's Office. "We'll have some guys out all night long and then we'll have a full crew out starting at around 3 a.m."