Shocker Air Hitch & Channel Style Pintle Hook
Rated for your tow
14,000 lbs GTW · 1,400 lbs TW · 2-1/2" receiver· 14,000 lbs GTW · 1,400 lbs TW · 2-1/2" receiver
$1,159.18
$1,226.38 save $67.20
or as low as $97/mo with flexible financing — 4, 6, or 12 months. Options at checkout.
Smoother Safer Towing
Air ride towing technology with a heavy duty built in air spring to cushion the ride & absorb the road shock. Cushions the bumps, bangs, jerks and tugs experienced when towing with a pintle.
Built in HD Air Ride System
Absorbs road shock, creates smooth ride & reduces tendency to trailer sway. Dual rubber bump cushions also offer additional HD performance.
Improves Safety
By giving you improved control of your tow vehicle and trailer. The air receiver hitch system allows for better control of your pickup and the trailer it is towing.
Provide 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 and bumps.
Stop destroying your trailer and cargo.
Every bump, pothole, and expansion joint sends a violent jolt through your trailer frame, damaging cargo and wearing out your truck. Shocker Air Ride Hitches absorb that punishment at the coupling, before it reaches your trailer.
Every frost heave, every washboard gravel stretch, and every hard stop travels straight up the drawbar into your truck and right back into your trailer. That constant chucking and jerking wears on your driveline, your trailer welds, and whatever you loaded up, and it beats up the people in the cab too. The Original Shocker Air Hitch is the red-powder-coat workhorse that started the air-ride hitch category, and it kills that shock at the source. This Shocker Air Hitch & Channel Style Pintle Hook carries 14,000 lbs GTW on Shocker's standard 8-hole chassis, enough to pull the heaviest trailer you'll put behind an F-250 / RAM 2500-class three-quarter-ton truck (class V receivers). It drops into a 2-1/2-inch receiver and puts adjustable air between the road and your rig, so livestock, boats, travel trailers, and contractor cargo all ride smoother whether you're on the interstate or a section-line gravel road.
Key Highlights
- Pulls 14,000 lbs GTW and up to 1,400 lbs of tongue weight on the original 8-hole chassis
- Drops into the 2-1/2-inch receiver on F-250 / RAM 2500-class three-quarter-ton trucks (class V receivers)
- Air pressure you adjust on the fly, so any trailer load rides right
- Rocker-arm pivot with no slides, rollers, or parallel linkages to wear out
- 3″ Drop to 7″ Drop geometry gets your trailer sitting level
- Iconic safety-red powder coat that shrugs off chips and impact
- Works with 20+ Shocker ball-mount attachments you can swap in seconds
- Backed by our 60-day satisfaction guarantee
What's Included
- Original Shocker Air Hitch base frame with 2-1/2-inch receiver shank
- Built-in air spring and dual rubber bump cushions, pre-installed
- Schrader air valve with cap
- (3) D-handle ball-mount attachment pins with clips
- Selected ball-mount attachment if applicable to this SKU
- Installation and air-pressure setup instructions
Not Included
- —Air compressor or pressure gauge (available separately)
- —Friction sway-bar kit, only needed for sway-prone trailers (sold separately)
- —Extra ball-mount attachments beyond the one shipped with this SKU
Installation
Watch the official install walkthrough for this hitch — the exact steps and tools, straight from the manufacturer.
How Shocker Air Ride Works
The Air Bag Takes the Hit
A heavy-duty air bag sits under the receiver tube and soaks up the jerking, tugging, and impact before any of it reaches your truck or trailer. Nothing bolts solid to your driveline, so the shock stops at the hitch instead of running through your whole rig.
Air You Dial In for Any Trailer
An empty stock trailer and a loaded one pull nothing alike. Add air for a heavy load, bleed some off for a light one, and set the hitch at the right ride height every time you hook up, so your setup sits level instead of nose-high or dragging.
One Simple Pivot
Shocker's down-and-back motion runs on a single pivot. There are no slides, rollers, parallel linkages, or stacked airbags to wear out or seize up. Fewer moving parts means less to fail and a longer service life out on the road.
Backup Cushions for the Worst Hits
When you slam a pothole or a railroad crossing hard enough to bottom out the air bag, two backup rubber cushions catch the extreme jolt. That built-in redundancy keeps the system safe under the heaviest impacts.
Who the Original 14K Is Built For
Built for stock-suspension full-size trucks pulling mid-weight bumper-pull loads on the roads you actually drive, not just smooth test tracks.
- Livestock and stock-trailer haulers who live on gravel and section-line roads
- Boat owners fighting rough launch ramps and slab-concrete highway seams
- Travel-trailer and toy-hauler owners who want a calmer ride in the cab
- Contractors towing cargo, equipment, or enclosed work trailers
- RV motorhome owners with a 2-1/2-inch receiver under the bumper
- Anyone on an F-250 / RAM 2500-class three-quarter-ton truck (class V receivers) who wants the original red-finish workhorse
Sway Control: Pick the Ball Mount You Need
The Original line comes with or without sway-control tabs, depending on which ball-mount attachment you run:
Standard Ball Mount (No Sway Tabs)
Right for boats, livestock trailers, equipment haulers, and anything that doesn't fight you with sway. The pivoting air-ride design already calms sway on its own, so you can skip the extra friction bars.
Ball Mount With Welded Sway Tabs
Comes with welded tabs so you can bolt on a friction sway-bar kit (sold separately). Go this route for travel trailers and tall campers that get shoved around by crosswinds and passing semis.
Flip It to Match Truck and Trailer Height
A trailer that rides nose-high or tail-down handles worse and chews up its tires uneven. This Shocker Air Hitch & Channel Style Pintle Hook ships in a 3″ Drop to 7″ Drop ball-mount setup, and most Shocker ball mounts flip over to turn that drop into rise. Use the 8 adjustment holes to fine-tune coupler height until your rig sits level. Tow a low travel trailer behind a lifted truck or a tall camper behind a stock pickup, and the geometry adapts either way.
Built to Take a Beating
This is heavy-wall steel under Shocker's impact-resistant safety-red powder coat, in stock and shipping straight from Canada with no border wait. The air bag is the same multi-ply rubber that rides under commercial truck air suspensions, and when it eventually wears, you swap it in minutes instead of replacing the whole hitch. It's backed by Shocker Hitch's 60-day satisfaction guarantee.
$1,159.18
Still researching?
Skip the product wall — these are the four guides every buyer actually opens before they decide.
Installation Guide
Step-by-step videos for every Shocker family. What's in the box, what tools you need, and how long it takes.
Watch the installAir Pressure Setup
How to dial in air pressure by trailer weight so the ride is right the first time and the hitch lasts longer.
See psi by loadTowing Capacity Guide
Match GTW, tongue weight, and receiver size to your truck class so you don't over- or under-buy.
Read the guideConfigure Your Hitch
60-second fit quiz — answer a few questions about your truck and trailer, get a tailored recommendation.
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