Product Description
- Safer Smoother Towing: Improves your ride, easier on you, and your equipment, plus reduces wear & tear on pickup & your Bison 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 earth.
- Easy Install: Completely replaces your factory gooseneck stem & coupler with Gooseneck Surge Air System & Coupler. Installs in Minutes.
- Shock Dampening & Absorbing Action: Effectively absorbs the jerking, tugging, bumps and damaging forces experienced when towing on rough roads & concrete highways with a typical hard connection. Helps eliminate jerks, bumps, bangs, tugs & bumps felt when towing on rough roads or concrete highways.
- Built-in Air Ride System: This hitch directs the tow resistance through the air ride system, producing a smooth ride. Patent #’s 11,370,257 B1 & D898,628.
- Fits 4″ Round Stem: With angled/slotted holes for the pin, Bison Coach Horse Trailers
- 30,000 lbs & 7,000 lbs tongue weight: Available with 30k dual latching Shift Lock gooseneck coupler. 9″ offset coupler option has 6,000 lb tongue weight.
- 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 for short bed pickups)
- Provides Comfort: With a smoother ride! Travel a lot on concrete highways? No more jarring every time you cross a section divider. Your Shocker air hitch absorbs the thumps, bumps, and jerks you feel when towing your gooseneck trailer.
- Shock Dampening & Absorbing Action: Shocker air hitch effectively absorbs the jerking, tugging, and damaging forces experienced with a typical hard connection when towing trailers. There is no reason to beat yourself or your equipment up with a hard connection.
- Shift Lock™ Coupler: Rated up to 40,000 lbs rated, patented gooseneck coupler. 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. The coupler for 2-5/16″ ball is 30,000 lbs GTW and 3″ ball is 40,000 lbs GTW.
- 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.
- Adjustable for Tow Weight: 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.
- Adds Life To Your Vehicle & Gooseneck: By reducing wear and tear on the driveline and frame! Treat yourself, your equipment, and your passengers to a much smoother ride. You’ll never return to the ‘old days’ of continual bumps, jerks, and vibrations.
- Saves Fuel: Customers using the gooseneck air hitch report saving one mile or more per gallon.
- Includes complete Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch with built-in air ride, replacement inner tube stem & 30,000 lb Shift Lock™ gooseneck coupler for 2-5/16″ ball.
- Have a different trailer brand? Click this link to Find Your Gooseneck Surge Air Hitches by Trailer Mfg
- Improves Safety: By giving you improved control of your tow vehicle and trailer. The Gooseneck surge air hitch system allows for better control of your pickup and the trailer it is towing.
- Safety Note: Towing capacity is limited by the lowest rated component.
The Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch & coupler is the ultimate in gooseneck horse trailer towing for your Bison coach gooseneck horse trailer. Featuring a 30K coupler or the patented 30K Shift Lock™ gooseneck air coupler for a 2-5/16″ hitch ball and fits the Bison coach gooseneck horse trailers with a 4″ round stem. The built in air ride system absorbs the road shock, bumps, jerks, tugs, and bangs through the proven surge hitch system creating a smoother, safer towing experience for you, your pickup, your trailer & the contents. A Bison gooseneck trailer is a premium trailer and needs a premium shock absorbing hitch & coupler. The Gooseneck Surge air hitch & coupler is the only air ride hitch to exclusively work in a forward and back motion, which is often times this is the biggest jerk & tug you feel when towing gooseneck trailers. The shock absorbing hitch for a Bison gooseneck horse trailer is made for smooth and safe towing on your pickup, trailer and horses. Completely replaces your factory stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Installs in minutes.
Note: Bison gooseneck trailers have round stems that are 4″ with angled/slotted 10-20 degree holes. The Shocker gooseneck surge air hitch attaches easily to your trailer. Replacement stem has 3 adjustment holes and the coupler extends 3″ forward from factory location or you can also order it with 9″ forward extension coupler for short bed pickup trucks. Not sure what size round gooseneck stem you have? Check out our gooseneck stem selection guide.
California Residents: Prop 65 Warning
I installed this shocker hitch on my 2023 bison horse trailer with living quarters. Prior to installation my truck was all over the road thrusting horribly front of
To back after installing it and setting it to 15 psi, it virtually eliminated all thrusting.. I simply am amazed and highly recommend this product to anybody who’s towing any type of weight behind your half ton or three-quarter ton truck.
It works as advertised! Very impressive. I’m pulling a 28 ft 3 horse with living quarters using a Chevy 2500. Was about to buy another dually until I tried this hitch.
We pull a large LQ with a 12′ superslide. Even with our dually it bucked and lurched on bad roads and they are all bad out here! I was skeptical about the Shocker but with the 30 day trial and free return shipping, I was willing to try it. We headed out on the rodeo trail from SW Montana to Northern Canada to the Saskatchewan border and back to Dillon. Nearly 2,000 miles was all the proof I needed! The Shocker is staying on my trailer. Now, it’s not a $12 air ride system, but it’s dang good for $990. And it was super easy to install. My hubs and I did it by ourselves… and we’re both long in the tooth. If you’re thinking about it, try it. You won’t regret it.
So far so good!! I have taken just one little test run since installing the Shocker gooseneck hitch on our Bison Premiere LQ horse trailer. Huge improvement in the ride with 20 psi. My trailer weighs about 15k with 4.5-5.5 k on the hitch. Looking forward to our trip to Montana later this summer and fine tuning for the ultimate ride. 😀
First trip with Shockerhitch on old bumpy state highway. The hitch made for a smooth ride instead of being beat to death.