Product Description
- Safer Smoother Towing Every Mile with Built in Air Ride for Buckeye Gooseneck Trailer: Improves your ride, easier on you, your equipment, plus reduces wear & tear on pickup & Bravo 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: You will find the advantage of the Gooseneck Air Shocker is your ability to adjust air pressure for changing tongue weights, best ride and load control. For heavier loads, increase the air pressure; for lighter loads reduce it. View our Shocker Gooseneck PSI Air Pressure tuning guide.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. 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 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: Buckeye gooseneck trailers have 4″ square stems with straight pin holes. Great for Buckeye gooseneck trailers including both the aluminum & steel flatbed, car and tilt gooseneck trailers. (If you have a different stem please let us know).
- 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 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 option is SH-9100. Set bolt lock, part # SH-400GL-ISP-BLK available and sold separately.
- Safety Note: Towing capacity is limited by lowest rated component.
Gooseneck Trailer Towing FAQ
- Do I Need an Offset Gooseneck Coupler?
- Trailer Chucking
- Advantages of Air Hitches
- Do I Have a Gooseneck or 5th Wheel?
- What is Towing Capacity?
- Shocker Gooseneck Hitch Uses
- Types of Trailers for Towing with a Pickup Truck
- Types of Gooseneck Balls
- Why Grease Your Hitch Ball?
- How to Back Up a Gooseneck Trailer?
- How To Level Trailer
- How To Fix Truck Squatting
- Type of Round Gooseneck Stems
The Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch & coupler is the ultimate air ride upgrade for your Buckeye gooseneck trailer. Smoother towing every mile. Built-in air ride and dual bump cushions filter the road shock, bumps, bangs, jerks and tugs through the air ride system, making it easier on you, your passengers, animals, truck, cargo and equipment. Also reduces breakage, wear & tear on your equipment & cargo. You get better handling and the ability to adjust your air pressure for changing tongue weights, best ride and load control. Featuring the all dual latching patented Shift Lock® coupler for a 2-5/16″ or 3″ gooseneck hitch ball or the ez latch demco gooseneck coupler. Upgrade with air ride gooseneck towing at its’ finest. Up to 40,000 lbs GTW and 8,000 lbs Tongue Weight. The Gooseneck Surge air 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 gooseneck trailers. This gooseneck chucking and bucking is filtered and dampened. Works great on gooseneck style trailers made by Buckeye Trailers. Installs in minutes and Completely replaces your factory gooseneck stem & coupler. Great for Buckeye gooseneck trailers including both the aluminum & steel flatbed, car and tilt gooseneck trailers. Featuring 3 height adjustment holes & extends your hitch 3″ forward or you can also order it with a 9″ offset coupler for extra cab clearance or if towing with a short bed pickup. Made by Shocker Hitch® USA in Jamestown, ND.
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