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It's hard to tell from these photos, but I'm sure a body shop could tell you. Remember, there are several things that determine if it's totaled or not, such as year/extent of damage to body and/or frame & driving components. They totaled my 2017 Big Horn (read ended at 70mph) after the damages topped $26K 4 years ago. Bed, frame, rear axle, transfer case, but when they got to the cab, it was buckled behind the rear doors. Totaled!
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My last truck was totaled because of damage on the inner cab and bed structure. If it would have been the outer portion then they could have repaired it instead of having to replace the bed and cab (pushed the cost over the value of the truck so got a check instead of my truck back).

Decades ago I got rear-ended (looked worse than your pictures). It looked pretty bad and I was sure I was going truck shopping that weekend but it was repaired. The body shop told me that since the frame damage was behind the rear axle it was only considered minor frame damage and could be repaired. Again, that was decades ago so I don't know if the same holds true all these years later.
 

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Yessir.. I'd lay odds it's totalled. You're looking at a complete bed, major repairs to the cab (the body shop has to remove all that bondo to fix it), and that's not counting any possible frame damage.

It's a 20yr old truck, so just a replacement bed and spraying it will most likely cause it to be totalled.
 
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