To me, most of the salvage risk is in insurance value. If something happens to your truck, your insurance (or the other guys) won't give you a hill of beans in value for your ride. Say the truck would be worth $10g normally. With salvage maybe its worth $3g. Insurance will only repair to a percentage of the vehicles value. If its 50%, then your coverage is really only $1500. Imagine some jackass runs a stop sign and smashes up your truck. Insurance offers up $1500?!

Of course all of those numbers are made up. They are only there to illustrate my point. To me salvage only makes sense on a vehicle with little value to begin with, otherwise you risk losing too much in the event of an accident.

My long-winded $0.02