Product Description
- Safer Smoother Towing: Improves your ride, easier on you, your equipment, plus reduces wear & tear on pickup & trailer. Built-in air ride system for a smoother towing experience. An air spring bag is simply the best cushion device on the planet.
- Shock Dampening & Absorbing Action: 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.
- Easy Install in Minutes: Completely replaces your factory gooseneck stem & coupler with Gooseneck Surge® Air System & Coupler. Installs in Minutes.
- 30,000 lbs Tow & 7,000 lbs tongue weight: Patented 30,000 lbs dual latching Shift Lock™ coupler for 2-5/16″ gooseneck ball.
- 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.
- 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 coupler for short bed pickups).
- Patented Shift Lock™ Coupler: 30,000 lbs rated 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. Patent #’s 11,370,257 B1 & D898,628.
- 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.
- Saves Fuel: Customers using the gooseneck air hitch report saving 1 mile or more per gallon.
- 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.
- Adds Life To Your Vehicle & Gooseneck: By reducing wear and tear on driveline and frame! Treat yourself, your passengers, cargo, horses, livestock & equipment to a much smoother ride. You’ll never go back to the old days of continual bumps, jerks & vibrations.
- Gooseneck Stem Options: Available in 3-15/16″ round tube with angled pin holes for ED gooseneck trailers or the new patent pending round multi-fit stem.
- Simple Pivot Design: Uses a rocker arm pivot design which produces a front & back motion, much different than other cushion hitches on the market. Our design eliminates the need for parallel linkages, shock absorbers, torsion arms & other over engineered gadgets.
- Not Sure What You Need To Order? Order by Trailer Manufacture. Click this link to Find Your Gooseneck Surge Air Hitches by Trailer Mfg.
- Got a Short Bed Pickup? Check out our all new Gooseneck air hitch with 9″ extension. If you have a gooseneck trailer 3″ goose ball, check out our 40,000 lb gooseneck air hitch with 3″ ball coupler.
- Safety Note: Towing capacity is limited by lowest rated component.
Round Tube Pin & Sizing Guide

The Shocker gooseneck surge air hitch is the ultimate in smooth towing for ED gooseneck trailers. Works for gooseneck flatbed, deckover, tilt, and equipment trailers made by ED Trailer MFG. Featuring a 30,000 lb patented shift lock coupler for 2-5/16″ hitch ball and fits the ED gooseneck trailers with a round stem (Stems are 100 mm | 3-15/16″). 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. The air ride system absorbs the bumps, bangs, jerks and tugs, creating a smoother & safer towing experience. Whether you are an occasionally tow with a gooseneck or a hotshot, this shock absorbing hitch for a gooseneck trailer is made for smooth and safe towing. Works great on gooseneck style trailers from ED trailer MFG. The built in air ride system absorbs the road shock and filters the bumps through the air ride system creating a smoother, safer towing experience for you, your pickup, your trailer & the contents. Upgrade your gooseneck trailer with the smooth towing solution. Whether you occasional tow a gooseneck trailer or are doing hotshot trucking across the US, this gooseneck hitch adds instant air ride to your towing experience. This is the preferred gooseneck hitch for hotshot haulers. Customers report fuel savings of 1 mile per gallon or more when towing with the Shocker gooseneck surge air hitch & coupler. Completely replaces your factory stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Installs in minutes. Made by Shocker Hitch® USA in Jamestown, ND.
Fits ED gooseneck trailers with either a 100 mm | 3-15/16″ round stem with angled pin holes. The replacement round 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″ offset coupler for short bed pickup trucks.
Note: ED gooseneck trailers have round stems that are 100mm (3-15/16″). The Shocker gooseneck surge air hitch attaches easily to your trailer in minutes. Not sure what size round gooseneck stem you have? Check out our gooseneck stem selection guide.
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