• Smoother, Safer Towing Every Mile with Built in Air Ride for a Gooseneck Trailer: Improves your ride, easier on you, your equipment, plus reduces wear & tear on pickup & goose trailer. Built-in air ride system for a smoother towing experience. Just add air depending on the weight of your trailer & 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 # D898,628 and additional pending.
• Air Ride Hitch with Kingpin Connection for Gooseneck Trailers: Designed for low-profile 5th wheel plates like on flatbed trucks. Not for use with camper 5th wheel plate.
• Provides Comfort & Improve Control Towing with a Gooseneck: The smoother towing you get makes it easier on you, your passengers, animals, cargo and trailer. The patented design filters the natural tugs between trailer and pickup giving you more control and comfort towing a gooseneck trailer. By giving you improved control of your tow vehicle and trailer, it is safer. The Gooseneck surge air hitch system allows for better control of your pickup and 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 Gooseneck PSI Air Pressure tuning guide. Heavy loads, Watch: just add air.
• Fast & Easy Installation on Your Gooseneck Trailer In Minutes: Completely replaces your factory gooseneck stem & coupler with Gooseneck Surge® Air System & Coupler. Watch Installation Video.
• 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: Effectively absorbs the jerking, tugging, bumps and damaging forces experienced when towing on rough roads & concrete highway with a typical hard connection. Helps eliminate jerks, bumps, bangs, tugs & bumps felt when towing on rough roads or concrete highways.
• Tested, Trusted & Proven – Best Rated Gooseneck Air Ride Hitch: Uses a rocker arm pivot design which produces a front and back motion, which is the biggest jerk you feel with towing with a gooseneck. It’s tested & proven to be much better than other cushion hitches on the market. Our design eliminates the need for parallel linkages, shock absorbers, torsion arms, and other over engineered gadgets.
• 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.
• 30,000 lbs Gross Trailer Weight & 7,000 lbs Tongue Weight: With the ability to adjust air pressure for the best ride and load control. Heavy loads, Watch: just add air.
• Fits Low Profile 5th Wheel Hitch Plates: & has 3 height adjustment holes and kingpin extends 3" forward from your factory coupler location.
• Gooseneck Air Hitch with King Includes: Complete Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch with built in air ride system & dual bump cushions, replacement inner tube stem size selection & 30,000 lb kingpin. Designed for low-profile 5th wheel plates like on flatbed trucks. Not for use with camper 5th wheel plate. Patent #’s D898,628.
• Saves Fuel: Customers using the gooseneck air hitch report saving one mile or more per gallon.
• Custom Fit Thick Wall Heavy Duty Stem Options: Available to fit 100mm round, 4" round, 100mm square, 4" square gooseneck stems. New: We also offer the patent pending multi-fit set that works on 100mm & 4" round stems with straight or angled pin holes.
• Got a Short Bed Pickup? Check out our Gooseneck hitch with 9" offset coupler. If you have a gooseneck trailer 3" goose ball, see the Gooseneck air hitch with 3" ball coupler. You can find your Gooseneck hitch by trailer brand. You can also get a regular Gooseneck air hitch with 2-5/16" ball coupler.
• Safety Note: Towing capacity is limited by lowest rated component.

Gooseneck Trailer Towing FAQ

• Trailer Chucking
• Do I Need an Offset Gooseneck Coupler?
• 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

Get smoother gooseneck towing every mile. If you a flatbed truck with a low 5th wheel plate and looking for a smoother ride for a gooseneck with a kingpin instead of a ball coupler? Upgrade your gooseneck trailer with a 30.000 lb Gooseneck Surge® air hitch with kingpin design for 5th wheel hitch connection. This allows you to add instant air ride towing to your gooseneck trailer stem and pull it with your favorite truck and kingpin 5th wheel hitch.  The air ride Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch to king pin conversion hitch is the ultimate in smooth trailer towing by adding a miniature air suspension system between your truck and trailer to cushion your towing.

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 air ride system filters the road shock through the air spring bag absorbing the jerks, chucking and bucking. This creates a smoother, safer towing experience for you, your pickup, your trailer & the contents. Upgrade your gooseneck trailer with the smooth towing solution. It also reduces damage along with wear & tear on your trailer, truck & equipment. A normal hard connection your trailer & truck feel every bump, jerk and tug. The shock absorbing hitch for a gooseneck trailer to king pin coupler is made for smooth and safe towing. This setup is used for hot shot trucking when pulling with a in bed low profile 5th wheel like on a flat bed pickup truck. Completely replaces your factory gooseneck stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & king pin. Watch Installation Video Featuring 3 height adjustment holes & extends your hitch 3" forward. Made by Shocker Hitch® USA in Jamestown, ND.

Note: Only works with low profile 5th wheel plates like on a flatbed. Not for use with camper 5th wheel plate (it is too tall).

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