Product Description
- Smoother Safer Towing: Improves your ride, reduces wear & tear on pickup & trailer made by Big Tex Trailers.
- Easy Install: Completely replaces your factory gooseneck stem & coupler with Gooseneck Surge Air System & Coupler. Installs in Minutes.
- 30,000 lbs & 6,000 lbs tongue weight: Available with 30k dual latching Shift Lock gooseneck coupler.
- Absorbs Road Shock: Helps eliminate tugs, jerks & bumps felt when towing on rough roads or concrete highways.
- Built in Airbag: This hitch directs the tow resistance through an airbag, producing a smooth ride.
- Air Ride Technology: Protects your truck, gooseneck trailer and the contents with a smoother, safer tow. Heavy loads, just add air. The cure for choppy, bouncy, buckled, rough & busted up roads. No more booms, bangs and jerks when towing with your gooseneck.
- Choose Square or Round Stem: With angled / slotted holes for the pin.
- Fits 2-5/16″ gooseneck hitch balls: & has 3 height adjustment holes. (Standard Shift Lock™ coupler extends 3″ forward from your factory coupler or choose 9″ extension for short bed pickups)
- Includes complete Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch with built in airbag, replacement inner tube stem & 30,000 lb Shift Lock™ gooseneck coupler for 2-5/16″ ball.
- Have a different trailer brand? Click this link to Find Your Gooseneck Surge Air Hitches by Trailer Mfg
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 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 & contents. Featuring a 30K patented Shift Lock™ coupler for 2-5/16″ hitch ball and 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. Works great on gooseneck style end dumps, flatbed, horse trailers and more. . Completely replaces your factory stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Installs in minutes. Manufactured by Shocker Hitch® USA
Note: All Big Tex gooseneck trailer have round or square stems that are 100mm (3-15/16″). The square gooseneck stem has a crank on top. 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 round stem has set bolts for centered and angled holes. The Big Tex gooseneck with square stem fits the crank style jack
Adjustable for Tow Weight: The air bag sits behind your gooseneck hitch and out of the way. You will find the advantage of the Air Shocker is your ability to adjust air pressure for best ride and load control. View our Shocker PSI Air Pressure tuning guide.
Shock Dampening Action: Shocker air hitch effectively absorbs the jerking, tugging and damaging forces experienced with a typical hard connection when towing trailers.
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.
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.
Air Ride Hitch Technology: Shocker Air is designed with a built-in air bag for a smoother towing experience. Just add air depending on the weight of your trailer and it’s contents.
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.
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.
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 as well as the valuable cargo you have inside the truck and trailer.
Provides Comfort: With a smoother ride! Travel a lot on concrete highways? No more jarring every time you cross a section divider. Your Shocker air hitch absorbs the thumps, bumps and jerks you feel when towing your gooseneck trailer.
Saves Fuel: By using a gooseneck Surge Hitch, you may save as much as one mile per gallon. When we developed the Surge Hitch our intention was to give a smoother ride, period. We perfected that and never considered the other benefits. Customers using the Surge hitch started calling with reports of better fuel mileage. Claims of up to a mile per gallon are pretty normal. The question is why? Trucks manufactured over the past ten years or more have a very sophisticated on board computer. The computer senses a jerk or load increase and gives the engine more fuel. This process happens many times in a second. By reducing the jerks, the computer will give the engine less fuel. The other contributing factor is cruise control. If your trailer bucks the cruise control will increase speed. When the buck stops, the cruise control reduces speed. This sets up a cycle of accelerating and decelerating, again using more fuel. A Shocker Surge Hitch can reduce this effect and give you a much smoother ride.
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I’m still on the fence regarding this hitch. I believe I was just expecting too much out of the hitch and slightly disappointed. The one thing that I was hoping the hitch would do is eliminate some of the bucking while on concrete interstates, however I do believe it has improved somewhat but the gooseneck still is pretty rough while on rough roads.
The one thing that I have noticed An improvement on is the tightness in my neck,
After a long day of driving I was experiencing sore neck muscles and tightness in the muscles, after installing the hitch this has improved. I have only had the hitch for a week or so but have already logged about 5000 miles, I will need more time to have a full review but for now the three stars is the best I can do
Awesome design, awesome performance. 100% would recommend!
Very noticeable improved less bumpy cab ride when towing deadhead with my goose neck trailor, thumbs up thus far
Just installed. Still trying it out on a 1500 hundred mile trip. So far I can feel a smoother ride. I just need to play with my air bag pressure
So far so good
100 percent recommend this, The Construction and Engineering on this product is high quality, U.S.A made. And will definitely save your back and your equipment especially driving on concrete roads. The installation was easy. I did it alone but would recommend an extra set of hands.
Man, it just works! It is worth the money for the product and the quality.
This product works great, what a great product makes a unbelievable difference when using the gooseneck airshocker
So far I have only used it on my empty trailer. And I have 18 lbs in the air bag. But it’s a lot better.
Very well built, heavy duty manufacturing. I have had it for a couple months now, and I’m not easy on it. Always hauling 20-30 k with my trailer.
Great customer service.
I bought two of these units for a dump trailer, and a 40’ equipment trailer. There’s a night and day difference towing. It does take a little bit of time to get the pressure right, but it’s worth the investment.
First off these guys offer a product I’ve only tried for a few weeks and I can be more pleased. Second their customer service is outstanding I made a mistake on my order and they were quick to fix it. Third it’s an American company I always support the hard working citizens of our great nation. I will continue to do business with them and you should as well.
Amazing product!!! I Loved mine
The shocker hitch improves my towing, the tugging when stopping and pulling off is eliminated. Much smoother ride it is worth the money!
Great product!
Just the air hitch my big tex trailer needed. Smooth sailing now.
Really helps smooth out towing. A must have for any gooseneck. Could have used this 10 years ago.
This air gooseneck coupler has made my big tex trailer tow much much better. My back thanks you.
We’ve had our 35′ gooseneck for 7 years. Cannot believe how much better it pulls and rides now with the Shocker. Should’ve purchased a long time ago!
Smooths out the ride immensely
If you reading any of the reviews you obviously are dealing with some rough rides. Make this purchase! You will not regret it! AMAZING how much this improves the ride! I was getting jerked around like I was having a seizure sometimes and the first ride with this was beyond night and day! I’ll be getting another for my other gooseneck soon! Thanks!!