How often do you drive around and forget to fill up the tank until it's too late?

Now, imagine a tracking device that uses an application that will send a notification to your phone when you run low on fuel.

Fix Track, a tracking device developed by entrepreneur Fikile Bili, promises to do just that.

Bili, 44, established the tracking company in April and named the tracker after his nickname Fix.

"I needed something very creative that would give me an income and enable me to pay my employees," Bili said.

He said he looked up to his role model, Minister of Transport Dipuo Peters, who is also his homegirl, for her leadership and hard work.

"Every time when we are back home in Kimberley when all families are gathered there, she is not home because she is doing roadblocks to curb road fatalities."

Of the tracker Bili said, "I decided to develop a tracking system that will help insurance companies, banks, government and even the private sector."

He said he travelled to Russia to investigate what technology they used.

"I decided to develop my own software called Fix Track and I wanted my tracker to be different from those of my competitors.

"My tracker is going to monitor your fuel by using an application which can be downloaded onto your phone.

"You can also check the speed in which the car is travelling at," Bili said.

He said during the festive season, the Department of Transport did not know where to deploy traffic law enforcement officers.

"[It is] because they do not have 100% driving habit statistics ... this tracker can monitor everyone's driving habit and actually send a report to the Department of Transport.

"For taxi people, who are most vulnerable when it comes to accidents, I have designed a tracker whereby every taxi is going to have a camera inside.

"If the taxi driver speaks on his phone, it will report to everyone," Bili said.

He added that he owes his success to his mother and that is why today he believes strongly in also empowering women through his company.

"My mother was a hustler. I know how hard it was for her but she pulled through for me and my younger sisters," Bili said.

The married father of three said South Africa was full of opportunities, if only many South Africans were not so lazy

"There are many opportunities in the country which I have not seen across the world. All that South Africans want is social grants," adding that passive people will regret not having exercised the many opportunities and if they do not utilise them.

In the near future he hopes to retire early so that he can be able to travel the world with his wife and co-worker Phindiwe.

mashabas@sowetan.co.za