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. 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.
- Easy Install in Minutes: Completely replaces your factory gooseneck stem & coupler with Gooseneck Surge® Air System & Coupler. Installs in Minutes.
- Provides Comfort: The smoother towing you get makes it easier on you, your passengers, cargo and trailer. The patented design filters the natural tugs between trailer and pickup giving you more control and comfort towing a gooseneck trailer.
- Shock Dampening & Absorbing Action: Effectively absorbs the jerking, tugging, bumps and damaging forces experienced when towing on rough roads & concrete highway with a typical hard connection. 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.
- 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 pressure.
- 30,000 lbs Tow & 7,000 lbs tongue weight: Patented 30,000 lbs dual latching Shift Lock™ coupler for 2-5/16″ gooseneck ball. 9″ offset coupler option offers 6,000 lbs 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″ extender gooseneck coupler when extra cab clearance is needed or you’re towing with gooseneck trailer with a short bed pickup truck).
- Patented Shift Lock™ Coupler: 30,000 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. 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.
- 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.
- Adds Life To Your Vehicle & Gooseneck: By reducing wear & tear on driveline & frame. Treat yourself, your equipment & your passengers to a much smoother ride. You’ll never go back to the days of continual bumps, jerks & vibrations.
- Custom Fit Thick Wall Heavy Duty Stem Options: Available for 100mm Round Tube stems with angled pin holes. New: We also offer the patent pending multi-fit set that works on 100mm & 4″ round stems with straight or angled pin holes.
- 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 Gooseneck Locks: Box style coupler & set bolt lock kit is part # SH-GK30P-400GL-BLK. Box style coupler lock is SH-GK340P-BLK. Pad lock style coupler lock is: SH-9000-Lock. Handle style coupler lock is SH-651P and set bolt lock, part # SH-400GL-ISP-BLK available and sold separately.
- Order by Trailer Manufacture: Find your Gooseneck Surge Air Hitch by Trailer Brand.
- Not sure what size round gooseneck stem you have? See our gooseneck stem selection guide.
- Got a Short Bed Pickup? Check out our all new Gooseneck air hitch with 9″ extender coupler. 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 and coupler is the ultimate in smooth towing for your Top Hat gooseneck trailer. This Shock Absorbing air cushion hitch absorbs the bumps, tugs, jerking and bucking creating a safer and smoother towing experience. It makes towing a gooseneck easier on you, your cargo and equipment. This air ride hitch & coupler system works on Top Hat gooseneck, dump, flatbed & cattle trailers with gooseneck. Featuring a dual latching 30,000 lb coupler for 2-5/16″ hitch ball and fits the Top Hat gooseneck trailers with a round stem. If extra cab clearance is needed, check out the 9″ offset extender Shift Lock™ coupler. 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 are an occasionally tow with a gooseneck or a hotshot, this shock absorbing hitch for a Top Hat gooseneck flat deck trailer is made for smooth and safe towing. Works great on gooseneck style flatbed trailers from Top hat Trailers. Completely replaces your Top Hat gooseneck factory stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Installs in minutes. Manufactured by Shocker Hitch®
Note: Top Hat gooseneck trailers have round stems that are 100mm / 3-15/16 inch. The Shocker gooseneck surge air hitch completely replaces your factory stem and coupler in minutes. 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. Not sure what size round gooseneck stem you have? See our gooseneck round stem guide.
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