0200 hours
She smiled down at the trooper and then went softly to her compartment . In the cab , Clay sipped at his coffee and kept watchful eyes on the video monitors . Beulah was back on auto drive and Clay had dropped her speed to a slow fifty as the traffic thinned . At 0200 hours he left the cab long enough to go back and shake Ben awake and was himself re-awakened at 0400 to take back control . He let Ben sleep an extra hour before routing him out of the bunk again at 0700 . The thin , gray light of the winter morning was just taking hold when Ben came back into the cab . Clay had pulled Beulah off to the service strip and was stopped while he finished transcribing his scribbled notes from the 0700 Washington Criminal Control broadcast .