Product Description
- Safer Smoother Towing with Built-in Air Ride for Better Built Gooseneck Trailer: Improves your ride, easier on you, your equipment, plus reduces wear & tear on pickup & Better Built gooseneck flatbeds, horse trailers, and hay bale trailers. 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. 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, 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, offers 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 Tow & up to 7,000 lbs Tongue Weight: Patented dual latching Shift Lock coupler for 2-5/16″. (6,000 lbs tongue weight on 9″ offset & all demco couplers and 7,000 lbs TW standard air hitch with shift lock).
- Fits 2-5/16″ gooseneck hitch balls: & has 3 height adjustment holes. (Standard coupler extends 3″ forward from your factory coupler or choose 9″ extension goose coupler for short bed pickups).
- Choose Dual Latching Shift Lock® or Demco Coupler: Patented gooseneck coupler. 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 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 onto ball; flip the handle up to unhook.
- Custom Fit Thick Wall Heavy Duty Stem Options: Better Built gooseneck trailers have a 100mm (3-15/16″), perfect for our patent pending round multi-fit stem that fits round stems with straight or angled pin holes.
- Gooseneck Air Hitch System Includes: Complete Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch with built-in air ride system & dual bump cushions, replacement inner tube stem & 30,000 lb Shift Lock™ gooseneck coupler for 2-5/16″ ball. Kingpin option is also available for low-profile 5th wheel plates, like on flatbed trucks. Not for use with camper 5th wheel plate.
- 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. Our design eliminates the need for parallel linkages, shock absorbers, torsion arms, and other over-engineered gadgets.
- 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 and the Demco box lock & set bolt lock is part #SH-GDSP-400GL-BLK. Demco pad lock style options is 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 lowest rated component.
Upgrade your Better Built gooseneck trailer with a 30,000lbs gooseneck air hitch designed for smooth, shock-free towing. The air ride Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch & coupler for 2-5/16″ gooseneck hitch balls is the ultimate gooseneck trailer hitch to cushion your towing and reduce harsh road impact. Works on Better Built gooseneck flatbeds, horse trailers, hay bale trailers, and other heavy-duty gooseneck applications. This patented shock-absorbing gooseneck air ride hitch is the only air ride gooseneck hitch that works exclusively in a forward and back motion, which is often the biggest jerk, tug, and road shock you feel when towing a gooseneck trailer.
The built-in airbag filters road shock through the air ride towing system, creating a smoother, safer towing experience for you, your pickup truck, your gooseneck trailer, and your cargo. Featuring the patented 30,000 lb shift lock™ or the EZ-latch Demco gooseneck air coupler for a 2-5/16″ hitch ball and fits the Better Built gooseneck trailers, along with a 9″ gooseneck extender coupler when extra cab clearance is needed, or you are pulling your goose trailer with a short bed pickup truck. Upgrade your Better Built gooseneck trailer with a proven smooth towing solution.
Whether you occasionally tow or are involved in hotshot trucking, this gooseneck air hitch adds instant air ride suspension to your hauling setup. This is the preferred gooseneck hitch for hotshot haulers and is considered one of the best hotshot trucking accessories available. This shock-absorbing gooseneck hitch is built for smooth, stable, and safe towing. Works great on gooseneck flatbed trailers, livestock trailers, tilt trailers, horse trailers, and more. Completely replaces your factory gooseneck stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Installs in minutes. Featuring 3 height adjustment holes & extends your hitch 3″ forward. Made by Shocker Hitch® USA in Jamestown, ND.
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