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.
- Provides Comfort: The smoother towing is 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.
- 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.
- 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 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 GTW & 7,000 lbs tongue weight: 30k dual latching Shift Lock gooseneck coupler for 2-5/16″ ball. (6,000 lbs tongue weight on 9″ offset).
- 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 when extra cab clearance is needed or you’re towing with gooseneck trailer with a short bed pickup truck).
- Custom Fit Thick Wall Stem: Replaces either 4″ Round Stem with Angled Pin Holes or 100mm Round with Straight Pin Holes on TrailerMan gooseneck trailers. Or choose the new patent pending multi-fit round stem that fits both.
- 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.
- Adds Life To Your Vehicle & Gooseneck: 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.
- Custom Fit Thick Wall Heavy Duty Stem Options: Available for 100mm Round, 4″ Round, 100mm Square, 4″ Square, 4.5″ Square & Crank style gooseneck stems. 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.
- Order by Trailer Manufacture: Find your Gooseneck 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 with the dual latching patented Shift Lock™ coupler is the ultimate in smooth towing for your Trailerman gooseneck trailer. This Shock Absorbing air cushion hitch works on Trailerman deckover & flatbed trailers with gooseneck. It absorbs the jerks, tugging & bucking by filtering the road bumps through the built in air ride system, creating way smoother and safer towing. Get more control and driver comfort. Reduce breakage and be easier on you, your cargo and trailer. Featuring a 30,000 lb coupler for 2-5/16″ hitch ball and it fits the Trailerman gooseneck trailers with a round stem. Air ride gooseneck with with 9″ forward offset extender coupler also available when extra cab clearance is needed or you’re towing with a short bed pickup. 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 Trailerman gooseneck flat deck trailer is made for smooth and safe towing. Works great on gooseneck style flatbed trailers from Trailerman Trailers. Completely replaces your Trailerman gooseneck factory stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Installs in minutes.
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Note: Trailerman gooseneck trailers have either round stems that are 4″ with angled holes 10-20 degrees for the hitch pin or some 2023 & newer models have 100mm round with straight pin holes. See stem selection guide for ordering. The Shocker gooseneck surge air hitch completely replaces your factory stem and coupler in minutes. Not sure what size round gooseneck stem you have? See our gooseneck stem guide.
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