Your morning transportation speed-read:

A new poll shows that one in 10 transportation workers is sleepy behind the wheel.

A man who drove an unauthorized vehicle onto the runway at Philadelphia International Airport is being held on $1 million bail.

A Southwest Airlines flight was canceled after a box cutter was found on board.

Airplane manufacturer Boeing has broken ground on a new delivery center near Seattle.

Congress is under pressure from an unusually wide range of industries and groups to pass a spending bill for transportation.

Several more big companies including Best Buy and Pacific Gas and Electric are joining a year-old Energy Department program that helps corporations make their commercial fleets more fuel-efficient and transition to alternative-technology vehicles.

The expansion of the National Clean Fleets Partnership is part of an Obama administration effort to promote energy programs that don’t require action on Capitol Hill, where energy legislation is mired in election-year political struggles.

The department announced that Best Buy, PG&E, energy tech giant Johnson Controls, and the waste management and recycling company Veolia Environmental Services are joining the partnership.

The program provides technical aid and other resources to help companies reduce gasoline and diesel use by expanding efficiency and using electric vehicles and alternative fuels.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Monday accused Republicans of trying to kill the pending highway funding bill for political gain.

The award comes days after GM announced it was temporarily suspending production of the vehicle.

Newt Gingrich is re-airing an ad hammering President Obama over rising gas prices in three Southern states with upcoming primaries.

The campaign announced Monday the previously-released ad would be going up on the air in Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama in a signal that Gingrich sees his path to regain momentum in the GOP nomination fight is through the Southern states.

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Senate Democrats will try to steer their $109 billion transportation bill toward final passage this week.

Momentum for a new federal highway and transit bill has stalled in the House, where a plan from Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to pare down a five-year, $260 billion transportation bill into an 18-month version was met with opposition from majority Republicans.

But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said last week he was ready to press the gas on the upper chamber's version of the measure.

"The bill is ready, it's ripe and we need to get this done," Reid said Friday on a conference call with reporters.

Twenty-three senators and 45 House members urged regulators to implement limits on speculative trading in energy futures.

"If you're Mitt Romney and you're rich enough, maybe you don't get it," said Gingrich of rising gas costs.