text: A bus driver who was caught reading a newspaper while driving has been slammed by his boss as a 'complete idiot'. A passenger filmed the driver on a bus in Auckland, New Zealand, and sent the video to bus company Ritchies Coachlines along with a complaint. In the footage the driver can be seen flicking through pages of the newspaper while the bus is in motion. Scroll down for video . A bus driver was caught reading a newspaper while driving in Auckland, New Zealand . As the bus slows to a stop at a set of traffic lights he moves his head to get a good look at one of the pages. Ritchies Coachlines boss Andrew Ritchie said he was embarrassed by the 'idiot' driver's actions. 'I am absolutely amazed by how absolutely stupid the guy is. Bloody irresponsible behaviour to the first degree, I can't believe it,' Mr Ritchie told the New Zealand Herald. 'The people on that bus put their trust in him. He wasn't even trying to hide it, he was holding the whole newspaper open, over the steering wheel.' Mr Ritchie said the driver would be disciplined, but would not go into detail. A passenger filmed the driver and sent the video to bus company Ritchies Coachlines along with a complaint . Ritchies Coachlines boss Andrew Ritchie said he was embarrassed by the 'idiot' driver's actions .
target: A passenger caught a driver reading the paper on a bus in Auckland, NZ .
  He sent the video to bus company Ritchies Coachlines with a complaint .
  His boss said he was embarrassed by the 'idiot' driver's actions .