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 for 100 mm (3-15/16″) Round Gooseneck Stems with angled pin hole (pin Not straight) on Elite Dump & Flatbed Gooseneck Trailers or choose 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 & coupler is the ultimate in smooth towing for your Elite flatbed utility & dump style gooseneck trailers. This is a different setup that what is needed for Elite horse trailers. Built in air ride gooseneck towing system works for Elite gooseneck flatbed & dump trailer with gooseneck. Featuring a 30,000 lb Shift Lock™ coupler for 2-5/16″ hitch ball and fits the Elite dump and flatbed 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. Whether you are an occasionally tow with a gooseneck or a hotshot, this shock absorbing hitch for a Elite dump or flatbed gooseneck trailer is made for smooth and safe towing. Works great on gooseneck style end dumps & flatbed trailers from Elite Trailers. Completely replaces your factory stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Installs in minutes. Manufactured by Shocker Hitch®
Saves money by reducing trailer breakage on both the trailer and the trailer contents! The Shocker hitch absorbs the damaging forces experienced with a typical hard connection. This greatly reduces the chances of breaking welds and doing other long term damage to your equipment. Plus it Saves Fuel by using a gooseneck surge hitch, you may save as much as one mile per gallon. Customers using the Surge hitch started calling with reports of better fuel mileage. Claims of up to a mile per gallon are pretty normal.
Note: Elite dump and flat deck gooseneck trailers have round stems that are 100mm (3-15/16″) and comes with angled / slotted holes for the pin. The Shocker gooseneck surge air hitch completely replaces your factory stem and coupler in minutes. Replacement gooseneck stem has 3 height adjustment holes and the coupler extends 3″ forward from factory coupler location or you can also order it with a 9″ forward extension coupler for short bed pickup trucks. Not sure what size round gooseneck stem you have? Check out our gooseneck stem selection guide.
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Smooth ride. Don’t hardly know the trailer is back there. Looks like a very well built hitch. Looking forward to getting a lot of smoother ride use out of it!