Firing is appropriate. He broke the rules quite knowingly and deliberately, endangering the lives and well-being of others, and does not deserve a job driving a forty-foot bus. It's not like they executed the guy; they just said, "This job is not for you."
That said, I read my Kobo while driving along Pacific Coast Highway once. Well, you could hardly call it "driving." There'd been an accident and traffic was at a complete standstill. First I ate my lunch, then I settled in for some light reading. Forty minutes later, traffic started to move again and I put my reader away.
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