• Safer Smoother Towing with Built in Air Ride for SMC Gooseneck Trailer: Improves your ride, easier on you, your equipment, plus reduces wear & tear on pickup & SMC gooseneck 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 SMC gooseneck trailers with 4" 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 options 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.

Air ride towing for SMC gooseneck trailers. The Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch is the ultimate in smooth towing for SMC horse & livestock gooseneck trailers. The air ride upgrade is also available with 9" extender couplers, which is great for extra cab clearance when you’re towing a gooseneck trailer with a short bed pickup truck. Get way smoother towing for you and your horses. Tow your horse safely and smoothly with an air ride goose hitch. This shock absorbing cushion 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 built in airbag filters the road shock through the airbag creating a smoother, safer towing experience for you, your pickup, your trailer & its contents. Featuring the patented exclusive 30K Shift Lock® Couplers for a 2-5/16" hitch ball or a auto latching Demco gooseneck coupler for a 2-5/16" hitch ball. Upgrade your gooseneck trailer with the smooth towing solution. Works on SMC horse & livestock trailers with a gooseneck. Whether you are occasionally towing with a gooseneck or towing all over the country, this shock absorbing hitch for an SMC gooseneck trailer is designed for smooth and safe towing. Works great on gooseneck style horse & livestock from SMC trailer manufacturing.  Completely replaces your factory stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Watch Installation Video Manufactured by Shocker Hitch®

Note:  Fits SMC gooseneck trailers with 4" with angled pin holes. We also have the new patent pending multi-fit stem options. The Gooseneck surge air hitch attaches easily to those stems. Replacement stem has 3 adjustment holes and the coupler extends 3" forward from factory location, or you can also order it 9" forward for short-bed pickup trucks.

Adds life to your pickup & gooseneck trailer by reducing wear and tear on 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. Join the list of satisfied customers who are using Shocker hitches.  It even saves fuel; customers using the gooseneck air hitch report saving one mile or more per gallon.

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