The Labor Day holiday is more than a week away but law enforcement is already hitting the roads in search of impaired motorists.

If you're caught driving over the limit, you will be under arrest.

If you're driving in Alabama, Florida, or Georgia, you may want to think twice before getting behind the wheel. Troopers along with other law enforcement agencies will be out in full force watching for motorists driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Kevin Cook of the Alabama State Troopers says, “We're going to be doing driver's license checkpoints, with our task force zero, our bat mobile is going to be in play on this regular line patrols and just a general increase in numbers in order to inhibit the impaired driver.”

Just because you can't see them, doesn't mean they aren't there. Undercover, motorcycles and unmarked cars...law enforcement will be watching for any illegal or unusual driving behavior.

Cook says, “Speeding, aggressive driving… when people ingest alcohol they don't think straight and reaction times get slowed. It's things that we take for granted that we do normally with regular muscle memory that gets totally distorted.”

The national average for crashed that occur while driving under the influence is 32 percent. In Alabama it's 40 percent. Troopers say no doubt they'll be cracking down in impaired motorists.

Cook says, “If we catch you driving impaired, you will be placed under arrest, no excuses.”

While people tend to imbibe more during holidays, it’s an unfortunate fact that impaired driving hits close to home everyday.

Cook says, “In the past couple of months in the Wiregrass area we have seen an increase in fatal wrecks where families lives have ended and been shattered because of impaired drivers.”

So before you hit the highway, make sure you're safe to drive.

The “Over the Limit, Under Arrest” campaign is under way and will run through midnight on Labor Day.