The trucks have been inspected. The new drivers have been trained. The routes have been driven. Now, the wait.</p><p>The first snow is yet to arrive, but Overland Park officials say they&rsquo;re prepared and more than adequately stocked to plow 1,811 lane miles of roadway covering 74 square miles.</p><p>They&rsquo;re not making any guarantees how fast they&rsquo;ll get to your street, but they want to make at least one pass within 24 hours of a snowfall.</p><p>The city prioritizes streets, with the most resources going to major four-lane thorough fares followed by collector streets (which connect thoroughfares) and then residential streets and cul-de-sacs.</p><p>The city&rsquo;s loaded up on road salt. It has stored up more than 18,000 tons of salt, about 10,000 more than what&rsquo;s typically used each snow season.</p><p>The city&rsquo;s also planning to expand its use of a special elixir called GeoMelt M, a brownish liquid derived from beets that smells like molasses or gingerbread cookies.</p><p>The GeoMelt M is slightly more expensive than a mix of salt and calcium chloride that&rsquo;s used when temperatures fall below 20 degrees.</p><p>However, city officials say it&rsquo;s less corrosive, so it won&rsquo;t eat away at the roads, bridges and most importantly your car.</p><p>The city experimented with the new mix last year but hasn&rsquo;t come to any conclusions about its long term use.</p><p>The experiment will continue in various parts of Overland Park again this year even as the city continues to use the old stand-bys of salt, sand and calcium chloride.</p><p>This year the city is going to apply GeoMelt M to 95th Street, 103rd Street east of Antioch Road, parts of 151st Street east of Antioch and a big chunk of 159th Street east of Antioch.</p><p>They also will apply to GeoMelt M to Nall and Metcalf avenues south of 143rd Street.</p><p>Also targeted are residential streets in the northeast, central and southwest parts of the city.</p><p>Also new this year, the city will have all its trucks equipped with automatic vehicle locators so dispatchers can follow the plows as they move through the city.</p><p>Overall, the city has a team of nearly 170 people it can bring to bear against the snow this year. That includes 94 drivers and six backups. Also on the team are mechanics, dispatchers and traffic engineers.</p><p>The snow team relies heavily on volunteers from other city departments. For example, dispatchers and drivers from other city departments often volunteer to help out with snow removal so the city doesn&rsquo;t need a full-time staff committed solely to the initiative.</p><p><hr class="infobox-hr-separator" /> <div class="infobox"> <strong><span class="infobox-head">OVERLAND PARK</span></strong><br /> </div>