• Safer Smoother Towing with Built in Air Ride for Big Tex Gooseneck Trailers: Improves your ride, reduces wear & tear on pickup & trailer. Air Ride Technology with 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 ride system 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.
• Fast & Easy Install on Your Gooseneck Trailer in Minutes: Completely replaces your factory gooseneck stem & coupler with Gooseneck Surge Air System & Coupler. Watch Installation Video.
• 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.
• Reduces Stress, Wear, Tear & Breakage on Truck, Trailer & Cargo: Air ride reduces wear & tear on the driveline and frame. Less stress & breakage on welded. Treat yourself, passengers, animals, & equipment, and your passengers to a much smoother ride. You’ll never go back to the continual bumps, jerks, and vibrations.
• Shock Dampening & Absorbing Action Make It Easier on You & Equipment: 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. 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.
• 30,000 lbs to 40,000 lbs Tow & up to 8,000 lbs tongue weight: Patented dual latching Shift Lock® coupler for 2-5/16" or 3" gooseneck ball. (6,000 lbs tongue weight on all 9" offset stems and demco couplers & 7,000 lbs TW standard shift lock air hitch). 30,000 lbs GTW for round stems and up to 40,000 lbs GTW with 8,000 lbs tw for square stem options.
• Choose for 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). 2-5/16" coupler is rated at 30,000 lbs GTW and 3" coupler is rated at 40,000 lbs GTW & 8,000 lbs tongue weight.
• 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 onto ball, flip handle up to unhook.
• Custom Fit Thick Wall Heavy Duty Stem Options: Big Tex gooseneck trailers have 100mm (3-15/16") round stems with angled pin holes (pin Not straight) as well has 4" square with straight pin holes and square stems with top crank. You can now choose the new patent pending round multi-fit stem that fits 4" & 100mm (3-15/16") round stems with straight or angled safety pin holes.
• Gooseneck Air Hitch System Includes: Complete Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch with built-in air ride system, replacement inner tube stem & Shift Lock® or Demco gooseneck coupler. Choose for a 2-5/16" or 3" ball. Kingpin option only available for low-profile 5th wheel plates like on flatbed trucks. Not for use with camper 5th wheel plate.
• 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.
• 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: 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 Surge Air 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.

Bolt on Air ride upgrade for your Big Tex gooseneck trailer. The air ride Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch & coupler is the ultimate in gooseneck trailer towing for your Big Tex gooseneck flatbed, flatdeck, or dump trailer.  This gives you smoother towing with this shock absorbing cushion hitch. It is the only air ride hitch to exclusively work in a forward and back motion, which is oftentimes this is the biggest jerk you feel when towing gooseneck trailers. The built-in air ride system filters the road shock through the air ride system creating a smoother, safer towing experience for you, your pickup, your trailer & contents. Featuring the patented Shift Lock® coupler for 2-5/16" or 3" hitch ball or a demco auto latching coupler for 2-5/16" ball. This gooseneck air hitches shock absorbing design for a Big Tex gooseneck trailer creates a smooth and safe towing experience whether you occasionally tow or are a hotshot driver towing across the country. Available with 30,000 lbs GTW for round stems options and up to 40,000 lbs GTW for square stem options. Works great on gooseneck style end dumps, flatbeds, horse trailers, and more to absorb the bumps, bangs, jerks & tugs. Completely replaces your factory stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Watch Installation Video Manufactured by Shocker Hitch® USA

Note: Big Tex gooseneck trailer has a 100mm (3-15/16") round with angled pin or 100mm (3-15/16") square stems with top crank as well has 4" square with straight pin holes.  The square gooseneck stem has a crank on top. 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. A Big Tex gooseneck trailer with a round stem has set bolts for centered and angled holes. The Big Tex gooseneck with square stem fits the crank-style jack

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.  If even saves fuel, customers using the gooseneck air hitch report saving one mile or more per gallon.

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