Product Description
- Safer Smoother Towing with Built in Air Ride for a Middlebury Gooseneck Trailer: Improves your ride, easier on you, your equipment, plus reduces wear & tear on pickup & Middlebury 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. 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.
- 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.
- 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 to 40,000 lbs Tow & 6,000 to 8,000 lbs tongue weight: Available with dual latching Shift Lock gooseneck coupler. All 9″ offset coupler & demco coupler options have 6,000 lbs TW. 2-5/16″ ball shift lock coupler has 30,000 lbs GTW & 7,000 lbs TW. 3″ ball shift lock coupler has 40,000 lbs GTW & 8,000 lbs TW.
- 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 to a much smoother ride. You’ll never go back to the continual bumps, jerks, and vibrations.
- 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.
- 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 a 9″ extension for short bed pickups. The extender coupler option is great for extra cab clearance. 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.
- 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. Choose for 2-5/16″ ball, 3″ ball, or kingpin option. Kingpin option is also available for low-profile 5th wheel plates like on flatbed trucks. Not for use with camper 5th wheel plate.
- Custom Fit Thick Wall Stem Options: Available for Middlebury gooseneck trailers with 4″ square tube stems. For the square option, you can order the new patent pending square multi-fit stem that fits both 4″ & 100mm (3-15/16″).
- Saves Fuel: Customers using the gooseneck air hitch report saving one mile or more per gallon.
- 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. This is often the biggest bucking and jerk you feel. Our design filters that through an air ride system. It eliminates the need for parallel linkages, shock absorbers, torsion arms, and other over-engineered gadgets.
- Optional Shift Lock 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 option 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 square gooseneck stem you have? See our gooseneck stem selection guide.
- Safety Note: Towing capacity is limited by lowest rated component.
Upgrade your Middlebury gooseneck trailer with air ride. Quick and easy installation. This air ride goose hitch system with coupler is easier & less stress on you, your horses, livestock, truck, truck & cargo. The Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch & coupler is the ultimate in smoother and safer towing for Middlebury gooseneck trailers. Great for Middlebury car haulers, toolbox trailers with gooseneck. The patented surge system absorbs the chucking & bucking by cushioning your towing. It reduces damage with the shock absorbing design. With a traditional hard coupler connection, you feel every bump & tug in both the truck and gooseneck trailer. The Gooseneck Surge air hitch is the only air-ride hitch that exclusively works in a forward-and-back motion, which is often the biggest jerk you feel when towing gooseneck trailers. This shock absorbing gooseneck hitch features either an auto-latching Demco gooseneck coupler or the patented Shift Lock® coupler for 2-5/16″. Both these styles are rated at 30,000 lbs GTW. If you have a 3″ ball, we have a 40k Shift Lock Coupler. Absorb the road shock and upgrade your Middlebury gooseneck trailer. Whether you are occasionally towing with a gooseneck or a hotshot, this shock absorbing air ride hitch for a Middlebury gooseneck trailer directs the bumps, bangs, and rattles through the built-in airbag, creating a smoother and safer towing experience for you, your pickup, trailer, and its contents. Completely replaces your factory stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Installs in minutes. This coupler also extends 3″ forward from where your factory coupler is located. Manufactured by Shocker Hitch®
Note: Middlebury gooseneck trailers have 4″ Square stems. The Shocker gooseneck surge air hitch & coupler attaches easily to your trailer in minutes. Replacement gooseneck stem has 3 height adjustment holes and the coupler extends 3″ forward from factory coupler location or you can also order it with a 9″ extension gooseneck coupler, which is great for extra cab clearance or if you are towing a gooseneck trailer with a short bed pickup truck Not sure what size square gooseneck stem you have? Check out our gooseneck stem selection guide.
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