Product Description
- Safer Smoother Towing with Built in Air Ride for Big Tex Gooseneck Trailers: Improves your ride, reduces wear & tear on pickup & trailer. Air Ride Technology with built-in air ride system for a smoother towing experience. Just add air depending on the weight of your trailer and its contents. An air ride system is simply the best cushion device on the planet. This hitch directs the tow resistance through the air ride system, producing a smooth ride. Patent #’s 11,370,257 B1 & D898,628.
- Fast & Easy Install on Your Gooseneck Trailer in Minutes: Completely replaces your factory gooseneck stem & coupler with Gooseneck Surge Air System & Coupler. Installs in Minutes.
- Adjustable for Tow Weight – Easily Adjust for Best Ride & Load Control: The air ride system sits behind your gooseneck hitch and out of the way. You will find the advantage of the Gooseneck Air Shocker is your ability to adjust air pressure for best ride and load control. View our Shocker PSI Air Pressure tuning guide. Heavy loads, just add air.
- Reduces Stress, Wear, Tear & Breakage on Truck, Trailer & Cargo: Air ride reduces wear & tear on the driveline and frame. Less stress & breakage on welded. Treat yourself, passengers, animals, & equipment, and your passengers to a much smoother ride. You’ll never go back to the continual bumps, jerks, and vibrations.
- Shock Dampening & Absorbing Action Make It Easier on You & Equipment: Effectively absorbs the jerking, tugging, bumps & damaging forces experienced when towing on rough roads & concrete highway with a typical hard connection. Helps eliminate jerks, bucking, bangs & chucking felt when towing. Built in air ride system along dual external bump cushions, plus internal bump inside of air spring bag offer heavy duty, yet very smooth performance.
- 30,000 lbs to 40,000 lbs Tow & up to 8,000 lbs tongue weight: Patented dual latching Shift Lock® coupler for 2-5/16″ or 3″ gooseneck ball. (6,000 lbs tongue weight on all 9″ offset stems and demco couplers & 7,000 lbs TW standard shift lock air hitch). 30,000 lbs GTW for round stems and up to 40,000 lbs GTW with 8,000 lbs tw for square stem options.
- Choose for 2-5/16″ or 3″ gooseneck hitch balls: & has 3 height adjustment holes. (Standard coupler extends 3″ forward from your factory coupler or choose 9″ extension for short bed pickups). 2-5/16″ coupler is rated at 30,000 lbs GTW and 3″ coupler is rated at 40,000 lbs GTW & 8,000 lbs tongue weight.
- Choose Dual Latching Shift Lock® or Demco Coupler: Patented gooseneck coupler. Shift lock is the only gooseneck coupler that captures ball on both sides. At a glance, you can see if the coupler is locked on the ball. Easy to use handle to hook up and disconnect the coupler from the ball. Patent #’s 11,370,257 B1 & D898,628. Demco ez latch coupler automatically latches onto ball, flip handle up to unhook.
- Custom Fit Thick Wall Heavy Duty Stem Options: Big Tex gooseneck trailers have 100mm (3-15/16″) round stems with angled pin holes (pin Not straight) as well has 4″ square with straight pin holes and square stems with top crank. You can now choose the new patent pending round multi-fit stem that fits 4″ & 100mm (3-15/16″) round stems with straight or angled safety pin holes.
- Gooseneck Air Hitch System Includes: Complete Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch with built-in air ride system, replacement inner tube stem & Shift Lock® or Demco gooseneck coupler. Choose for a 2-5/16″ or 3″ ball. Kingpin option only available for low-profile 5th wheel plates like on flatbed trucks. Not for use with camper 5th wheel plate.
- Improves Safety: By giving you improved control of your tow vehicle and trailer. The Gooseneck surge air hitch system allows for better control of your pickup and the trailer it is towing.
- Simple Pivot Design: Uses a rocker arm pivot design which produces a front and back motion, much different than other cushion hitches on the market. Our design eliminates the need for parallel linkages, shock absorbers, torsion arms, and other over engineered gadgets.
- Saves Fuel: Customers using the gooseneck air hitch report saving one mile or more per gallon.
- Optional Gooseneck Locks: Shift lock box style coupler & set bolt lock kit is part # SH-GK30P-400GL-BLK. Box style coupler lock is SH-GK340P-BLK. Pad lock style shift lock coupler lock is: SH-9000-Lock and the Demco box lock & set bolt lock is part #SH-GDSP-400GL-BLK. Demco pad lock style options is SH-9100 . Set bolt lock, part # SH-400GL-ISP-BLK available and sold separately.
- Order by Trailer Manufacture: Find your Gooseneck Surge Air Hitch by Trailer Brand.
- Not sure what size round gooseneck stem you have? See our gooseneck stem selection guide.
- Safety Note: Towing capacity is limited by lowest rated component.
Bolt on Air ride upgrade for your Big Tex gooseneck trailer. The air ride Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch & coupler is the ultimate in gooseneck trailer towing for your Big Tex gooseneck flatbed, flatdeck, or dump trailer. This gives you smoother towing with this shock absorbing cushion hitch. It is the only air ride hitch to exclusively work in a forward and back motion, which is oftentimes this is the biggest jerk you feel when towing gooseneck trailers. The built-in air ride system filters the road shock through the air ride system creating a smoother, safer towing experience for you, your pickup, your trailer & contents. Featuring the patented Shift Lock® coupler for 2-5/16″ or 3″ hitch ball or a demco auto latching coupler for 2-5/16″ ball. This gooseneck air hitches shock absorbing design for a Big Tex gooseneck trailer creates a smooth and safe towing experience whether you occasionally tow or are a hotshot driver towing across the country. Available with 30,000 lbs GTW for round stems options and up to 40,000 lbs GTW for square stem options. Works great on gooseneck style end dumps, flatbeds, horse trailers, and more to absorb the bumps, bangs, jerks & tugs. Completely replaces your factory stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Installs in minutes. Manufactured by Shocker Hitch® USA
Note: Big Tex gooseneck trailer has a 100mm (3-15/16″) round with angled pin or 100mm (3-15/16″) square stems with top crank as well has 4″ square with straight pin holes. The square gooseneck stem has a crank on top. We also have the new patent pending multi-fit stem options. The Gooseneck surge air hitch attaches easily to those stems. Replacement stem has 3 adjustment holes and the coupler extends 3″ forward from factory location or you can also order it 9″ forward for short bed pickup trucks. A Big Tex gooseneck trailer with a round stem has set bolts for centered and angled holes. The Big Tex gooseneck with square stem fits the crank-style jack
Adds life to your pickup & gooseneck trailer by reducing wear and tear on driveline and frame! Treat yourself, your equipment, and your passengers to a much smoother ride. You’ll never go back to the ‘old days’ of continual bumps, jerks, and vibrations. Join the list of satisfied customers who are using Shocker hitches. If even saves fuel, customers using the gooseneck air hitch report saving one mile or more per gallon.
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We have a hotshot business and spend a lot of our days pulling a trailer. The hitch really makes a difference in our life!
Price is hard to accept, but worth it overall. It works well, especially on an OTR truck. It saves a lot of shock on the equipment. Shipped super fast, but the only option offered online was fedex.
Love it have it on both my big Tex trailers
Love the product and Super easy to install.
I’m still on the fence regarding this hitch. I believe I was just expecting too much out of the hitch and slightly disappointed. The one thing that I was hoping the hitch would do is eliminate some of the bucking while on concrete interstates, however I do believe it has improved somewhat but the gooseneck still is pretty rough while on rough roads.
The one thing that I have noticed An improvement on is the tightness in my neck,
After a long day of driving I was experiencing sore neck muscles and tightness in the muscles, after installing the hitch this has improved. I have only had the hitch for a week or so but have already logged about 5000 miles, I will need more time to have a full review but for now the three stars is the best I can do
Awesome design, awesome performance. 100% would recommend!
Very noticeable improved less bumpy cab ride when towing deadhead with my goose neck trailor, thumbs up thus far
Just installed. Still trying it out on a 1500 hundred mile trip. So far I can feel a smoother ride. I just need to play with my air bag pressure
So far so good
100 percent recommend this, The Construction and Engineering on this product is high quality, U.S.A made. And will definitely save your back and your equipment especially driving on concrete roads. The installation was easy. I did it alone but would recommend an extra set of hands.
Man, it just works! It is worth the money for the product and the quality.
This product works great, what a great product makes a unbelievable difference when using the gooseneck airshocker
So far I have only used it on my empty trailer. And I have 18 lbs in the air bag. But it’s a lot better.
Very well built, heavy duty manufacturing. I have had it for a couple months now, and I’m not easy on it. Always hauling 20-30 k with my trailer.
Great customer service.
I bought two of these units for a dump trailer, and a 40’ equipment trailer. There’s a night and day difference towing. It does take a little bit of time to get the pressure right, but it’s worth the investment.
First off these guys offer a product I’ve only tried for a few weeks and I can be more pleased. Second their customer service is outstanding I made a mistake on my order and they were quick to fix it. Third it’s an American company I always support the hard working citizens of our great nation. I will continue to do business with them and you should as well.
Amazing product!!! I Loved mine
The shocker hitch improves my towing, the tugging when stopping and pulling off is eliminated. Much smoother ride it is worth the money!
Great product!
Just the air hitch my big tex trailer needed. Smooth sailing now.
Really helps smooth out towing. A must have for any gooseneck. Could have used this 10 years ago.
This air gooseneck coupler has made my big tex trailer tow much much better. My back thanks you.
We’ve had our 35′ gooseneck for 7 years. Cannot believe how much better it pulls and rides now with the Shocker. Should’ve purchased a long time ago!
Smooths out the ride immensely
If you reading any of the reviews you obviously are dealing with some rough rides. Make this purchase! You will not regret it! AMAZING how much this improves the ride! I was getting jerked around like I was having a seizure sometimes and the first ride with this was beyond night and day! I’ll be getting another for my other gooseneck soon! Thanks!!