Product Description
- Smoother Safer Towing: Improves your ride, reduces wear & tear on pickup & trailer made by Load Trail / Max Trailers.
- 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.
- 30,000 lbs to 40,000 lbs Tow & 7,000 lbs tongue weight: Available with dual latching Shift Lock gooseneck coupler. The 9″ offset coupler option has 6,000 lbs TW. 2-5/16″ ball coupler has 30,000 lbs GTW and 3″ ball coupler has 40,000 lbs GTW & 8,000 lbs TW.
- Custom Fit Stem Options: Available for 4″ Round, 3-15/16″ Round, 4.5″ Square or new Round Multi-Fit Stem.
- 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.
- 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™ gooseneck coupler. Choose for 2-5/16″ ball or 3″ ball.
- 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 go back 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.
- Choose 2-5/16″ or 3″ 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)
- 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.
- Not sure what size round gooseneck stem you have? Check out our gooseneck stem selection guide.
- Have a different trailer brand? Click this link to Find Your Gooseneck Surge Air Hitches by Trailer Mfg
- Safety Notice: Towing capacity is limited by the lowest rated component.
The air ride Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch & coupler is the ultimate in gooseneck trailer towing for your Load Trail, also called Load Max gooseneck flatbed, flat deck, tilt, or dump trailer. Featuring the patented Shift Lock™ gooseneck air coupler for 2-5/16″ or 3″ ball. Get 30,000 lbs to 40,000 lbs GTW, depending on options chosen. The built in air cushions the ride and absorbing the road shock creating a smooth, safer towing experience. It makes it way easier on you, your pickup, trailer, and its load. This shock-absorbing hitch fits the Load Max or Load Trail Trailer dump or flatbed gooseneck trailers. A Load Trail gooseneck trailer with a round stem has set bolts for 20-30 degree pin angle. 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. Whether you occasionally tow or are a hotshot trucking company, the road shock absorbing gooseneck hitch will really change the game. Made specifically for Load Max & Load Trail gooseneck trailers. Works great on gooseneck style end dumps, flatbed, tilting trailers, and more. Completely replaces your factory gooseneck stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Installs in minutes.
Note: Most Load Trail gooseneck trailers have round stems that are 100mm (3-15/16″) with angled pins holes, HOWEVER in 2021 some models are 4″ round with straight pin holes. The Shocker gooseneck surge air hitch has slotted / angled holes for the pin and attaches easily to those stems. 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″ offset coupler for short bed pickup trucks.
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We wish we had this 30 years ago! It really takes the beating out of pulling a gooseneck trailer! So happy we found this!
Smooth ride. Can’t even tell the trailer is hooked up.
What an improvement! So much smoother. Still get a jolt on the bad joints at bridges but nothing can be done about that. Overall well worth the investment
Fantastic Device way better ride on Truck and Trailer
My customers Love these GN Hitches.
Fantastic product!
Very pleased 17500# of tobacco pulled smoother than empty 21 psi was the magic number
This product is great and does exactly what they say it does . Great Product !
This is the only way to tow a gooseneck.
This is the best thing i’ve done to improve my load trail trailer. So sweet how this works. You say its smooth and it sure is.