A passenger at New York's JFK airport was caught attempting to board a flight with stun guns in his carry-on luggage. 

Your morning transportation speed-read:

A United Airlines passenger reached 10 million frequent flyer miles.

The FBI is now investigating a stun gun that was found on a Jet Blue plane.

Glenn Beck says Texas has the best highways in America.

Orlando, Fla.'s Disney World is cutting the hours of its Monorail.

The House is expected to take up legislation this week that would eliminate $2.3 billion in rail stimulus funds.

Democrats criticized Rep. Mica's proposed $230 billion highway bill, saying it did not spend enough to spur the economy.

An Amtrak train hit a dump truck Monday in Maine, killing the driver, the agency confirmed.

The train, number 681 on Amtrak's Downeaster service, hit the truck just after 11 a.m. The driver was reportedly trying to beat the train to a railroad crossing.

Amtrak said none of the 109 passengers on the train was injured, though service on the Downeaster route, which runs from Boston to Portland, Maine, was disrupted.

The accident was the second crash involving an Amtrak train and a truck in recent weeks. A tractor-trailer hit a train in Nevada in June, leading to six deaths.

The accidents have come amid debates in Washington about privatizing Amtrak service in the Northeast. Republican critics of the agency have argued that private companies could operate the service more efficiently than the national passenger rail service.

Detroit-based Ford Motor Co. endorsed a measure Monday introduced by New York Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D) to ban texting while driving nationwide.

More than 30 states have some form of limit on cellphone use in automobiles, and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has been encouraging other states to follow suit. But McCarthy introduced a bill last month to ban the use of hand-held phones behind the wheel at the federal level, which Ford Vice President of Government Affairs Pete Lawson said Monday was a good idea.
 
“Ford endorses Rep. McCarthy's legislation because it represents a practical, commonsense approach to a national problem," Lawson said in a statement. "Distracted driving is an important issue, and that's why Ford became the first automaker to support proposed legislation banning hand-held texting while driving in 2009 and why we are proud to support Rep. McCarthy's legislation that will ban using hand-held devices while driving.

Making the case that it was important for Congress to agree on a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling, President Obama said Monday that doing so could free lawmakers to consider other job creation ideas, such as the infrastructure bank proposed by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas).

Speaking at the end of a roughly 40-minute news conference Friday against a backdrop of last week's smaller-than-expected job growth report, Obama again made the case for the infrastructure bank.

"The infrastructure bank that we've proposed is relatively small," he said. "But could we imagine a project where we're rebuilding roads, bridges and ports and schools and broadband lines and smart-grids and taking all those construction workers and putting them back to work right now?

Monday begins the first full week of haggling over how much the federal government should spend on transportation.

Your morning transportation speed-read:

A Transportation Security Administration employee in Florida was arrested for allegedly stealing a passenger's iPad and stuffing it in his pants.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is pushing for more enforcement of distracted driving laws.

A stun gun was found on a Jet Blue airliner that landed at Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J.

Sioux City, Iowa's, Sioux Gateway Airport is gaining passengers because of flooding on the Missouri River.