Product Description
- Safer Smoother Towing with Built in Air Ride for Bison Coach Gooseneck Trailer: Improves your ride, easier on you, your equipment, plus reduces wear & tear on pickup & Bison Coach gooseneck living quarters trailer. 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 spring bag 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.
- Provides Comfort & Improve Control Towing with a Gooseneck: The smoother towing you get makes it easier on you, your passengers, animals, cargo & trailer. The patented design filters the natural tugs between trailer and pickup giving you more control &comfort towing a gooseneck trailer. By giving you improved control of your tow vehicle & trailer, it is safer. The Gooseneck surge air hitch system allows for better control of your pickup & the trailer it is towing.
- 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, Animals & Cargo: Air ride reduces wear & tear on the driveline and frame. Less stress & breakage on welded. Treat yourself, passengers, animals, & equipment to a much smoother ride. You’ll never go back to the continual bumps, jerks, and vibrations.
- Shock Dampening & Absorbing Action Makes It Easier on You & Equipment: Effectively absorbs the jerking, tugging, bumps & damaging forces experienced when towing on rough roads & concrete highways 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
- Quick & Easy Installation on Your Gooseneck Trailer In Minutes: Completely replaces your factory gooseneck stem & coupler with Gooseneck Surge Air System & Coupler. Air Ride Installs in Minutes on Gooseneck Trailer.
- 30,000 lbs GTW & 7,000 lbs tongue weight: Available with dual latching Shift Lock gooseneck coupler. All 9″ offset coupler & demco coupler options have 6,000 lbs TW. The 2-5/16″ ball shift lock coupler has 30,000 lbs GTW.
- Provides Comfort & Control with Simple Pivot Design: With a smoother ride. Your Shocker air hitch absorbs the thumps, bumps, and jerks you feel when towing your gooseneck trailer. The Gooseneck surge air hitch system allows for better control of your pickup & trailer. 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.
- 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 on to ball, flip handle up to unhook.
- Available for 2-5/16″ 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. Extender coupler option is great for extra cab clearance.). 2-5/16″ coupler is rated at 30,000 lbs GTW.
- Gooseneck Air Hitch System Includes: Complete Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch with built-in air ride system & dual bump cushions, replacement inner tube stem Shift Lock or Demco gooseneck coupler for 2-5/16″ ball or kingpin option. Kingpin option also available for low-profile 5th wheel plates like on flatbed trucks. Not for use with camper 5th wheel plate.
- Custom Fit Thick Wall Heavy Duty Stem Options: Bison Coach Gooseneck Horse Trailers have a 4 round stems with angled pin holes. Or choose the new patent pending round multi-fit stem.
- Saves Fuel: Customers using the gooseneck air hitch report saving one mile or more per gallon.
- Optional Gooseneck Trailer 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 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.
The Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch & coupler is the ultimate in gooseneck horse trailer towing for your Bison coach gooseneck horse trailer. Featuring the patented 30K Shift Lock® gooseneck air coupler for a 2-5/16″ hitch ball or a Demco auto latching gooseneck coupler for a 2-5/16″ hitch ball. Both couplers are also available in a 9″ offset extender coupler for people who are towing their gooseneck trailer with a short bed truck for extra cab clearance. This air ride gooseneck coupler fits the Bison coach gooseneck horse trailers with a 4″ round stem. The built in air ride system absorbs the road shock, bumps, jerks, tugs, and bangs through the proven surge hitch system, creating a smoother, safer towing experience for you, your pickup, your trailer & the contents. A Bison gooseneck trailer is a premium trailer and needs a premium shock absorbing hitch & coupler. The Gooseneck Surge air hitch & coupler is the only air ride hitch to exclusively work in a forward and back motion, which is often times the biggest jerk & tug you feel when towing gooseneck trailers. The shock absorbing hitch for a Bison gooseneck horse trailer is made for smooth and safe towing on your pickup, trailer, and horses. Completely replaces your factory stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Installs in minutes. Manufactured by Shocker Hitch®
Note: Bison gooseneck trailers have round stems that are 4″ with angled pin holes. 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.
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. It even saves fuel; customers using the gooseneck air hitch report saving one mile or more per gallon.
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I installed this shocker hitch on my 2023 bison horse trailer with living quarters. Prior to installation my truck was all over the road thrusting horribly front of
To back after installing it and setting it to 15 psi, it virtually eliminated all thrusting.. I simply am amazed and highly recommend this product to anybody who’s towing any type of weight behind your half ton or three-quarter ton truck.
It works as advertised! Very impressive. I’m pulling a 28 ft 3 horse with living quarters using a Chevy 2500. Was about to buy another dually until I tried this hitch.
We pull a large LQ with a 12′ superslide. Even with our dually it bucked and lurched on bad roads and they are all bad out here! I was skeptical about the Shocker but with the 30 day trial and free return shipping, I was willing to try it. We headed out on the rodeo trail from SW Montana to Northern Canada to the Saskatchewan border and back to Dillon. Nearly 2,000 miles was all the proof I needed! The Shocker is staying on my trailer. Now, it’s not a $12 air ride system, but it’s dang good for $990. And it was super easy to install. My hubs and I did it by ourselves… and we’re both long in the tooth. If you’re thinking about it, try it. You won’t regret it.
So far so good!! I have taken just one little test run since installing the Shocker gooseneck hitch on our Bison Premiere LQ horse trailer. Huge improvement in the ride with 20 psi. My trailer weighs about 15k with 4.5-5.5 k on the hitch. Looking forward to our trip to Montana later this summer and fine tuning for the ultimate ride. 😀
First trip with Shockerhitch on old bumpy state highway. The hitch made for a smooth ride instead of being beat to death.