Product Description
- Safer Smoother Towing with Built-in Air Ride for Behnke Gooseneck Trailer: Improves your ride, easier on you, your equipment, plus reduces wear & tear on your pickup & Behnke gooseneck livestock or horse 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 & Improves 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. Giving you improved control of your tow vehicle & trailer. The Gooseneck surge air hitch system allows for better control of your pickup & the trailer.
- 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 the best ride and load control. View our Shocker PSI Air Pressure tuning guide. For 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 welds. 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: 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. The Shift Lock is the only gooseneck coupler that captures the ball on both sides. At a glance, you can see if the coupler is locked around the ball. Patent #’s 11,370,257 B1 & D898,628. Demco EZ Latch coupler automatically latches on-to ball, flip the handle up to unhook.
- Available for 2-5/16″ gooseneck hitch balls: 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. The Kingpin option is also available for low-profile 5th wheel plates, as seen on flatbed trucks. Not for use with a standard camper 5th wheel plate.
- Custom Fit Thick Wall Stem Options: Available for Behnke gooseneck trailers with 3-5/16″ round tube stems with angled pin hole (pin not straight). You can order the new patent-pending round multi-fit stem that fits both 4″ & 100mm (3-15/16″) round stems with straight or angled pin holes.
- Saves Fuel: Customers using the gooseneck air hitch report saving one mile or more per gallon.
- 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, the Demco box lock & set bolt lock is part #SH-GDSP-400GL-BLK. Demco pad lock style options are DEM-17654-81. 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 the lowest rated component.
Upgrade your Behnke gooseneck trailer with a 30,000 lbs gooseneck air hitch. The air ride Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch & coupler for a 2-5/16″ gooseneck hitch ball is the ultimate hitch for smooth gooseneck trailer towing to cushion your towing. Smooth out the ride on your Behnke gooseneck flatbed, lowboy, or landscape trailer. This patented shock-absorbing cushion hitch is the only air ride hitch to exclusively work in a forward and back motion, which is often times this is the biggest jerk you feel when towing a gooseneck trailer. The built-in airbag filters the road shock through the airbag, creating a smoother, safer towing experience for you, your pickup, your trailer & the contents. This shock-absorbing gooseneck hitch features either an auto-latching Demco gooseneck coupler or the patented Shift Lock® coupler for a 2-5/16″ hitch ball. Both styles are rated at 30,000 lbs GTW. Upgrade your Behnke gooseneck trailer with a smooth towing solution. Whether you occasionally tow or are doing hotshot trucking, this gooseneck hitch adds instant air ride to your hauling. This is the preferred gooseneck hitch for hotshot haulers and is considered one of the best hotshot trucking accessories. The shock-absorbing hitch for a gooseneck trailer is made for smooth and safe towing. 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: Behnke gooseneck trailers have 3-5/16″ round 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 round gooseneck stem you have? Check out our gooseneck stem selection guide.
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