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Over the last decades the vehicle safety research, and in consequence the developments efforts has made passenger cars safer and safer. Since a few years, also for trucks design aspects has become more and more important. This paper describes a series of simulations for various crash conditions of a light truck in order to analytically evaluate the driver airbag must-fire and no-fire conditions for the vehicle and in addition the occupant kinematics for the driver. These conditions represent internal company standards for evaluating cab-over-engine (COE) type trucks. These standards were developed during years and represent typical crash conditions for European roads. An additional high speed (35 km/h) barrier test is considered as an extreme worst case. The no-fire simulations consist of a low speed, 15 km/h, crash against a rigid barrier, and a high-speed crash, 50 km/h, against a traffic-light pole.