Your morning transportation speed-read:

The National Transportation Safety Board is calling for a ban on cellphone use by commercial drivers.

Three Transportation Security Administration workers in Florida were arrested for allegedly being involved in a drug ring.

Airlines collected fewer bag fees in the first three months of the year.

Another Amtrak train hit a truck this week in Illinois, though no injuries were reported.

Transportation associations that had once hoped for more substantive reforms were breathing a sigh of relief Tuesday.

The House passed a bill to avert another FAA shutdown, but didn't provide back pay to workers furloughed earlier this month.

The legislation would extend the FAA through January and highway programs through March.

The Homeland Security secretary said children under the age of 12 will be patted down less frequently.

Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) praised the funding extension for highways and the FAA, although long-term appropriations measures will be delayed.

Your morning transportation speed-read:

A passenger at Kansas City's International Airport has been charged after faking a bomb threat on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11.

No charges will be filed against passengers on a Detroit flight that made an emergency landing after they were locked in a bathroom on Sept. 11.

Airline delays were down over the summer.

A Southwest Airlines maintenance contractor has been fined by the Federal Aviation Administration.

Without an extension, the government would be unable to collect the federal gas tax, which brings in about $100 million per day. 

The GOP bill is part of a concerted campaign to undermine the labor movement, the AFL-CIO chief charged.