• Safer, Smoother Towing with Built-in Air Ride for Merritt Gooseneck Trailer: Improves your ride, is easier on you and your equipment, and reduces wear & tear on the pickup & Merritt 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 & 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, Watch: 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. Watch Installation Video.
• 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 Stem Options: Available for Merritt gooseneck trailers with 100mm 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 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.
• 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 smooth gooseneck trailer towing for your Merritt gooseneck trailer. 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 and designed to fit the Merritt gooseneck livestock trailers.  The Gooseneck Surge air hitch & coupler with built-in airbag 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. The shock absorbing hitch & coupler for a gooseneck trailer is made for smooth and safe towing on your pickup, trailer, and contents. Works great on gooseneck style trailers made by Merritt Trailers. Whether you are occasionally towing your gooseneck or towing all over the country. This gooseneck air coupler is sure to make the trip smoother for you and your cargo with its road shock absorbing design. Works great on gooseneck style trailers. Completely replaces your factory stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Watch Installation Video This coupler also extends 3" forward from where your factory coupler is located. Manufactured by Shocker Hitch®

Note:  Merritt gooseneck trailers have round stems that are 100mm (3-15/16") with angled/slotted pin holes at 20-30 degrees. The Shocker gooseneck surge air hitch & coupler attaches easily to your gooseneck trailer. Replacement inner tube stem has 3 adjustment holes, and the coupler extends 3" forward from factory 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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